process
A running program, with memory of its own that other programs can't touch.
An operating-system process is a running program with its own address space; a JVM and the Java program it runs live in one process, whose threads share its heap.
A running program, with memory of its own that other programs can't touch.
An operating-system process is a running program with its own address space; a JVM and the Java program it runs live in one process, whose threads share its heap.