MOST POPULAR SOFTWARE - Java Virtual Machine or common abbreviated JVM is a virtual machine that is exclusively used to execute a Java bytecode files. According to Sun Microsystems, there are more than 4.5 billion of hardware in the world which have a java virtual machine inside of it.
Java Virtual Machine is a software developed specifically so as not to depend on the hardware and operating system specific. Java Virtual Machine provides a work environment required to run java based applications and automates features such as an error handling. Java Virtual Machine is generally distributed along with a set of basic library that implementing the Java's application programming interfaces, Application Programming Interface (API) which is also known as the Java Runtime Environment (JRE).