The most authoritative answer in 2024
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Oliver Flores——Works at IBM, Lives in Armonk, NY
With
Java, you can compile source code on Windows and the compiled code (bytecode to be precise) can be executed (interpreted) on any
platform running a JVM. So yes you need a JVM but the JVM can run any compiled code, the compiled code is
platform independent. ... for that why
Java is called
Platform independent.
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