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Java Virtual Machine
The Java Virtual Machine is the software implementation of a "CPU" designed to run compiled Java code. This includes stand-alone Java applications, as well as "applets" that are downloaded and run in Web browsers such as the NetScape Navigator. This book is a comprehensive programming guide for the Java Virtual Machine (JVM). The book is divided into two sections: the firs
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Paperback, 450 pages
Published
April 8th 1997
by O'Reilly Media
(first published April 1997)
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Wow, the mechanics of a platform-independent, byte-compiled, verifiable language are pretty cool. Even if you've had experience programming Java, there is a lot going on under the covers that you're probably not that familiar with. This book gets into the nitty-gritty, describing how the high-level language gets translated into bytecode, and from there to the actual machine code that is finally run.
The language marches on, implementation and optimization strategies improve, so the details in a b ...more
The language marches on, implementation and optimization strategies improve, so the details in a b ...more
A hidden gem in the huge wall of Java books at my local Barnes and Noble, just waiting to tip over and crush me one day (and one day it will. At the rate things are going, one day that bookcase will be tall enough to crush us all. It might even loop the world several times, crushing previous editions of the same Java books over and over again (with apologies to Why the Lucky Stiff)).
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