June 8, 2001— As an object-oriented, network-enabled, platform-spanning language smart enough to include primitive data types for efficiency, Java has always been cool. But it just keeps getting ...

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As Oracle slowly relinquishes more and more control of the Java Platform to the open-source community, one starts to wonder if being stewards of the Java Platform was more of a curse or a blessing.

Here we examine not only the motivation for Java's platform independence, but how the JVM and bytecode make Java's cross-platform capabilities possible.