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unusual facts about Java virtual machine



Roach motel

A property of the Java Memory Model, which lets compilers and Java Virtual Machines move accesses to memory into synchronized blocks, but not to move them out.

Sun SPOT

The device used the IEEE 802.15.4 standard for its networking, and unlike other available sensor nodes, used the Squawk Java Virtual Machine.

Typesafe Inc.

It provides an Open source platform for building Reactive applications for the JVM, consisting of the Play Framework, Akka middleware and Scala programming language—with additional supporting products and development tools such as the Scala IDE for Eclipse.


see also

Data parallelism

Similar to the previous example, Data Parallelism is also possible using the Java Virtual Machine JVM (using Ateji PX, an extension of Java).

Squawk

Squawk virtual machine, a Java virtual machine for small devices, written mostly in Java programming language.