"Tim Slattery" wrote in message
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"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.


Microsoft are as entitled to ship a jvm with their products as anyone else
is. Microsoft cannot ship the jvm that they developed because it was
enhanced over the original spec. Microsoft could produce a compliant one,
but decided instead to try and drive Jaca from the Internet (somewhat
unsccuessfully thus far).

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.


I have not found a web site so far that does not work with MS JVM.