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LennonCook · 01-07-2005, 02:26 AM

You don't want the Java Virtual Machine. You want the Java2 Runtime Environment.
They achieve much the same thing, except for a few differences:
- Java VM is Microsoft; J2RE is Sun. Sun invented and maintain JAVA.
- Java VM is known to be buggy and insecure.
- MS don't support the Java VM anymore, and don't distribute it (which is why you can't find it on their site). They actually aren't allow to in the way they were. They basically stole it, in that they tried to make it MS Proprietry. This landed them in trouble with Sun and with the courts.
- Java VM support stopped quite a while ago, meaning that it is not the latest version.

Sun's JAVA does not have any of these problems.

I'm not sure what Sir Degrader's link is (I've not heard of java.com), but it does display the Sun Microsystems logo. Get it from there, or directly from Sun.

EDIT: I just noticed that Sun links to java.com , so Sir Degrader's Link is definately endorsed by them, and even their official download site for it. [img]smile.gif[/img]

[ 01-08-2005, 07:59 PM: Message edited by: LennonCook ]

01-07-2005, 02:26 AM	#3
LennonCook Jack Burton Join Date: November 10, 2001 Location: Bathurst & Orange, in constant flux Age: 37 Posts: 5,452	You don't want the Java Virtual Machine. You want the Java2 Runtime Environment. They achieve much the same thing, except for a few differences: - Java VM is Microsoft; J2RE is Sun. Sun invented and maintain JAVA. - Java VM is known to be buggy and insecure. - MS don't support the Java VM anymore, and don't distribute it (which is why you can't find it on their site). They actually aren't allow to in the way they were. They basically stole it, in that they tried to make it MS Proprietry. This landed them in trouble with Sun and with the courts. - Java VM support stopped quite a while ago, meaning that it is not the latest version. Sun's JAVA does not have any of these problems. I'm not sure what Sir Degrader's link is (I've not heard of java.com), but it does display the Sun Microsystems logo. Get it from there, or directly from Sun. EDIT: I just noticed that Sun links to java.com , so Sir Degrader's Link is definately endorsed by them, and even their official download site for it. [img]smile.gif[/img] [ 01-08-2005, 07:59 PM: Message edited by: LennonCook ]