@TheMadPirate @bajax @rru142 @istvan @0 @Beekeeper @GAGOOT @MK2boogaloo @Ratcliffe @Zerglingman @apropos @kakkerel @laurel @p @sysrq @xue @Hyolobrika @moth @cjd @deprecated_ii @graf @lanodan @y @thatbrickster @yes Java is pretty much independent across CPUs and OSes and endianness.

That's also why the Microsoft Sun lawsuit happened. Sun did not like how Microsoft was extending this to do native win32 at the expense of being able to run jar files on Itanium.