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babu198649

22nd March 2008, 04:23

hi
how do different programming languages communicate.

ex,
linux is written in c language. any c program calls the system calls directly to perform its task.

but how do java does this.although it uses api's ,how these api's are written.

marcel

22nd March 2008, 07:55

Basically the java virtual machine translates Java API calls into system calls, where required, because a lot of things happen inside the jvm, without any need for outside calls. It is nothing fancy.