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by tokenizerrr 4077 days ago
> When many people say "the JVM" they mean the SE (i.e. "standard edition") of HotSpot

This changed in Java 7. OpenJDK is now the reference implementation, and thus "the JVM"
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pjmlp 4077 days ago
The fallacy is that those of us that deal with commercial JVMs have more to choose from than "the JVM".
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pron 4077 days ago
OpenJDK is a lot more than just the JVM (it's also the runtime libraries). Open JDK's JVM is named HotSpot.
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tokenizerrr 4077 days ago
I think the only JVM named HotSpot is the one distributed by Oracle.
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pron 4077 days ago
They are one and the same. Oracle's JVM is the OpenJDK's JVM, slightly modified (they mostly add monitoring capabilities that were part of the JRockit JVM), and Oracle's JDK (which contains the JVM) is OpenJDK with some minor additions.
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