I've always felt that the JVM seems to be a bit of an outsider - where the CLR seems tightly integrated. Whether this is due to the startup time, the need to st

I've always felt that the JVM seems to be a bit of an outsider - where the CLR seems tightly integrated. Whether this is due to the startup time, the need to start apps by invoking "java ..." rather than directly, or some other factor, I'm not too sure. I know that I could add options for .jar files to automatically invoke the JVM, but then not all use a Main class, so that's not a guaranteed fix. Maybe with the new generation of "cool" languages for the JVM we may start to see some change on this front. Oracle may have some interesting ideas as well, as new "owners" of the Java platform...