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> When many people say "the JVM" they mean the SE (i.e. "standard edition") of HotSpot This changed in Java 7. OpenJDK is now the reference implementation, and
by tokenizerrr 12y ago
> When many people say "the JVM" they mean the SE (i.e. "standard edition") of HotSpot
This changed in Java 7. OpenJDK is now the reference implementation, and thus "the JVM"
- pjmlp 12y agoThe fallacy is that those of us that deal with commercial JVMs have more to choose from than "the JVM".
- pron 12y agoOpenJDK is a lot more than just the JVM (it's also the runtime libraries). Open JDK's JVM is named HotSpot.
- tokenizerrr 12y agoI think the only JVM named HotSpot is the one distributed by Oracle.
- pron 12y agoThey are one and the same. Oracle's JVM is the OpenJDK's JVM, slightly modified (they mostly add monitoring capabilities that were part of the JRockit JVM), and Oracle's JDK (which contains the JVM) is OpenJDK with some minor additions.