Friday, October 19, 2012

Why is Java called platform independent

Java does not compile a program directly to machine code, it translates a program to an intermediate code named bytecode, which is later interpreted by JVM to respective machine codes. Thus, a single program can be run on any platform. This is why Java is called platform independent.

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