How Java Runs

What javac produces, what java consumes, and why one file runs on every machine.

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Most Java tutorials start with a file and a main method and leave the two commands as ceremony. The two commands are the model: one turns your text into an instruction set nothing on your machine can run natively, and the other supplies the machine that can. Class loading is named and not taught — you can go years without it.

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