"M.I.5¾" wrote:


"Tim Slattery" wrote in message
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"Mohammadreza DN" wrote:

what is msjvm and what is it's function?

JVM = Java Virtual Machine. That's the framework that allows you to
run Java programs and applets. msjvm is Microsoft's version of the
JVM. Due to a lawsuit, Microsoft had to stop making this and including
it with their operating systems many years ago, so any MSJVM is, by
this time, hopelessly obsolete.


That's not true. The lawsuit didn't stop Microsoft supplying a JVM with
their browsers. What the lawsuit stopped was Microsoft altering the Java
scripting language so that it would only work wih their own Internet
Exporer.

Whatever, that's the effect it had. MS cannot ship their proprietary
JVM, so they withdrew it, stopped shipping it, stopped working on it.
They even pulled the older OSs that contained it from MSDN.

Since the Java scripting language was fixed equally long ago (the idea was
that it would work on *any* platform), Microsoft's JVM is as good today as
its always been.

Well, no. Sun has released numerous updates since the last MS JVM came
out. Any applet written with Java 2.5 or 2.6, and maybe even 2.4 (I'm
not sure which version the MS JVM implemented) won't work with the MS
JVM.

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