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JVMs - installing and understanding

 
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The questions are this:
1. Where can I find the JVM installs for most any platform?
2. When is a JVM needed?
3. What will happen to the market of Java once the JVM is not put into IE 6.0?
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1. On Sun's web site
2. When you want to run a java program (application or applet)
3. Hard to say, but probably not a whole lot since, as far as applets go, people will just be prompted to download the java plug in. Applications written in java tend to come with their own copy of the appropriate JVM.
 
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1. sun's java page
2. as soon as you want to run a java app/let
3. applet's wont run in InternetExplorer and user is prompted to download a heavy plugin (which he wont). this will give java applets a hard stand but does not mean anything to applications since they mostly come with it's on copy of JRE. this wont affect the server side since this is where java is very strong at.

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So any time I run any application on a system, it needs the JVM. Hmm.... and as I know it.. all JVMs are not created equal. Is this correct?
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This might actually be a boon in disguise for java. The JVM's that are shipped with IE are extinct 1.1.x versions (the current version is 1.3 with 1.4 in beta). And if I remember correctly, the lawsuit between Sun and MS limits MS to ship only older versions (1.1.4 I think). So it might be a good thing to force users to download the java plug-in, which would be the latest JRE.

Originally posted by Dale DeMott:
3. What will happen to the market of Java once the JVM is not put into IE 6.0?


 
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