Sanjana Shetty

• Feb 7th, 2007

 

Java is platform independant at both the source and the binary level. Platform independance is the programs capability of moving from 1 computer system to another. Java binary files called bite codes are also platform independant and can run on multiple platforms without the need to recomplie the source. Bite-codes are a set of instructions that look like m/c code, but are not specific to any processor. Because of them complation happens just once, interpretation happens each time the program is executed. Java bite-code makes write once run anywhere possible.