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Pragati Prawal
Pragati Prawal

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JRE is called implementation of JVM why?

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JRE is not an implementation of the JVM itself.

Instead, JRE is a set of tools that includes an implementation of the JVM, along with other components necessary to run Java applications.

In the JRE or JDK distributions based on OpenJDK, the default JVM implementation is the HotSpot VM.