VB6 Installation

[Likestodraw]

I am trying to put on VB6, but it says something about updating java on my virtual machine. Can someone please shed some light on this?

[Stein]

It's nothing bad really, you can just let it do this. I'm not sure what it does because I never use Java but it has no bad impact or anything whatsoever.

[bluefroggy09]

I installed vb6 today and ran into this same thing.
Just install it and restart. After restarting, the installer will open and start going again.

No biggie!

[Likestodraw]

Ok thanks. Do you have any clue what it means when it says virtual machine, though?

[Stein]

Technically Java runs in a virtual environment of some sort. It's probably to do with that. (Java is an interpreted language ran in a virtual environment, blah blah blah technical mumbo jumbo bla :P)

[bluefroggy09]

"A virtual machine (VM) is a software implementation of a machine (i.e. a computer) that executes programs like a physical machine. Virtual machines are separated into two major categories, based on their use and degree of correspondence to any real machine. A system virtual machine provides a complete system platform which supports the execution of a complete operating system (OS). In contrast, a process virtual machine is designed to run a single program, which means that it supports a single process. An essential characteristic of a virtual machine is that the software running inside is limited to the resources and abstractions provided by the virtual machine—it cannot break out of its virtual environment."(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtual_machine)

[Likestodraw]

@Scypher:

> Technically Java runs in a virtual environment of some sort. It's probably to do with that. (Java is an interpreted language ran in a virtual environment, blah blah blah technical mumbo jumbo bla :P)

Thanks for that!
I just checked on Wikipedia and it said the same exact thing. I was just worried because I thought it meant that it was going to do something somewhere else on the network my computer is a part of (my dad is a network administrator, so he 'experiments' a lot at my house).

[Harris6310]

@Scypher:

> Technically Java runs in a virtual environment of some sort. It's probably to do with that. (Java is an interpreted language ran in a virtual environment, blah blah blah technical mumbo jumbo bla :P)


Incorrect. Java is compiled to bytecode, which is then natively interpreted by the virtual machine.

[AeroEBrown]

@Harris:

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> Incorrect. Java is compiled to bytecode, which is then natively interpreted by the virtual machine.

You were supposed to say "False." Trololol

> Java applications are typically compiled to bytecode (class file) that can run on any Java Virtual Machine (JVM) regardless of computer architecture.

Thanks,
Aero/EBrown

[Likestodraw]

@Harris:

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> Incorrect. Java is compiled to bytecode, which is then natively interpreted by the virtual machine.

That confuses me. A lot.
I'll put VB6 on tomorrow to avoid screwing up my project tonight and so that I can get out of packing :3

[Stein]

Which is pretty much what I said with the addition of ByteCode, and amusing how it's ByteCode when 90% of the Java applications allow me to read and modify the source by opening it as a zip file. :P

[Harris6310]

@Stein:

> Which is pretty much what I said with the addition of ByteCode, and amusing how it's ByteCode when 90% of the Java applications allow me to read and modify the source by opening it as a zip file. :P

That's because you are opening the source.