Doesn't Java still require an instalation of JRE, which is an analogue to .NET?

edit: If it somehow didn't need it, I would start considering it as my next language to learn.

No. The JRE can ship with the app. The CLR ships with the OS.

> No. The JRE can ship with the app. The CLR ships with the OS.

Yet you still need the JRE for Java.

The fact that the JRE can ship with the app doesn't change the fact that it stills need a VM runtime with all the overhead that it implies.