Beginning Programming With Java For Dummies - 4Th Edition - Barry A. Burd When Java first hit the tech scene in 1995, the language became popular almost immediately. This happened in part because of the JVM. The JVM is like a foreign language interpreter, turning Java bytecode into whatever native lan- guage a particular computer understands. So if you hand my Windows computer a Java byte- code file, then the computer’s JVM interprets the file for the Windows environment. If you hand the same Java bytecode file to my colleague’s Macintosh, then the Macintosh JVM interprets that same bytecode for the Mac environment. ✪ ✪ ✪ ✪ ✪ Theo LTTK Education
