Java and the Java Virtual Machine
Subtitle: Definition, Verification, Validation
By: by Robert F. Stärk, Joachim Schmid, Egon Börger
Contributors: Schmid, Joachim; Börger, Egon
Publisher: Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Published: 2001
Place of publication: Berlin, Heidelberg
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] :
Number of pages: 392
ISBN-13: 9783642594953
Description: This book provides a high-level description, together with a mathematical and an experimental analysis, of Java and of the Java Virtual Machine (JVM), including a standard compiler of Java programs to JVM code and the security critical bytecode verifier component of the JVM. The description is structured into language layers and machine components. It comes with a natural executable refinement which can be used for testing code. The method developed for this purpose is based on Abstract State Machines (ASMs) and can be applied to other virtual machines and to other programming languages as well. The book is written for advanced students and for professionals and practitioners in research and development who need for their work a complete and transparent definition and an executable model of the language and of the virtual machine underlying its intended implementation.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Abstract State Machines; title: Part I. Java; title: Part II. Compilation of Java: The Trustful JVM; title: Part III. Bytecode Verification: The Secure JVM; title: Appendix; title: Index.