Chapter 9. Platform Independent Development with Java
In previous chapters most of the discussion centered around GNU development tools and programming in C and C++ languages. This chapter is devoted to Java development and describes how to use some Java tools and a Java virtual machine.
As many of the readers already know, Java is a different language compared to other compile-and-execute languages in that it needs a Java virtual machine (JVM) to execute what is called byte code. Each platform has its own implementation of the Java virtual machine. There are many JVMs available on Linux platform in free and open source as well as commercial domains. Some virtual machines are also available for embedded Linux platforms that are very small in ...
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