From: Michael Neumann <mneumann@...>
Date: 2009-04-15T18:53:19+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby vs. Groovy: your perspective

Charles Oliver Nutter wrote:

> Michael Neumann wrote:
>> Hehe, depends on what exactly JVM means. The machine
>> architecture? Or the emulator, which in case of Sun's JVM
>> is not open-source. OpenJDK seems to be open source, except a few binary
>> plugs ("Not all of the source code that makes up the JDK is available
>> under an open-source license") [1].
> 
> I don't know what you mean by "emulator". 

If you treat JVM as an instruction set architecture (like IA32/x86), then 
the concrete machine or machine emulator that runs this ISA. Don't know how 
this is correctly termed in Java. JVM is probably the concrete machine, but 
then, how is the ISA termed? And how would one call other JVM implementation 
like Jikes? Jikes-JVM? Don't worry, I think this is getting off-topic :)

Regards,

  Michael