The Application Isolation API (JSR 121) provides a specification for isolating and controlling Java application life cycles within a single Java Virtual Machine (JVM) or between multiple JVMs. An isolated computation is described as an Isolate that can communicate and exchange resource handles (e.g. open files) through a messaging facility. The Java Community Process or JCP, established in 1995, is a formalized process which allows interested parties to be involved in the definition of future versions and features of the Java platform. ... Java is an object-oriented programming language developed by James Gosling and colleagues at Sun Microsystems in the early 1990s. ... A Java Virtual Machine or JVM, originally invented by Sun Microsystems [1], is a virtual machine that runs Java byte code. ... A resource is anything that has identity. ...

External links

• JSR 121: Application Isolation API Specification
• The Multi-Tasking Virtual Machine: Building a Highly Scalable JVM