Typically, you download and install the JVM as a bundled part of a Java Runtime Environment (JRE). The JRE is the on-disk part of Java that spawns a running JVM.

Java Mission Control's companion tool, Java Flight Recorder, is a sampling-based JVM profiler and event collection tool that is built directly into the JVM. However, Java Flight Recorder writes all of ...

My ZDNet colleague Ed Bott has exposed some icky practices at Oracle regarding their monetization of the end-user JRE install. Here's a better Java option for you to check out and some ...

What is the purpose of a Java compiler? The main purpose of a Java compiler (or a compiler in any programming language) is to translate the high-level Java source code into a machine code file ...