Specifications

Sun Services
Java™ Programming Language Module 1, slide 9 of 23
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The Java Virtual Machine
JVM provides definitions for the:
• Instruction set (central processing unit [CPU])
• Register set
• Class file format
• Stack
• Garbage-collected heap
• Memory area
• Fatal error reporting
• High-precision timing support