The Java Runtime Environment (JRE) is what you get when you download Java software. The JRE consists of the Java Virtual Machine (JVM), Java platform core classes, and supporting Java platform ...

The Oracle Java Runtime Environment (JRE) is a set of software tools for development of Java applications. It combines the Java Virtual Machine (JVM), platform core classes and supporting libraries.

The JVM then passes the actual processing work to the processor in its own language. The JVM is part of the Java Runtime Environment (JRE).

All Java programs are compiled into class files that contain bytecodes, the machine language of the Java virtual machine. In this JavaWorld classic, Bill Venners goes under the hood of the JVM to ...

The Java Runtime Environment (JRE), also known as Java Runtime, is the part of the Java Development Kit (JDK) that contains and orchestrates the set of tools and minimum requirements for executing a ...

The combination of the Java Virtual Machine (Java interpreter), the core class library and supporting files, all of which are required to run a Java program. See Java and Java Virtual Machine.

Lighter-weight threads are just the beginning. Java is adding an abstract model for parallelism that will make it easier for programmers and the JVM to process workloads concurrently.