A JVM is distributed along with Java Class Library, a set of standard class libraries (in Java bytecode) that implement the Java Application programming interface (API).

All Java programs are compiled into class files that contain bytecodes, the machine language of the Java virtual machine. In this JavaWorld classic, Bill Venners goes under the hood of the JVM to ...

Lighter-weight threads are just the beginning. Java is adding an abstract model for parallelism that will make it easier for programmers and the JVM to process workloads concurrently.

Don't let high Java CPU usage problems on Windows or Linux distract you from the underlying performance problem you're trying to troubleshoot. There are many ways to fix 100% Java CPU utilization ...

Java profiler tools fall into two camps: Java sampling and JVM instrumentation. In this article we compare the differences between the two approaches.