Charles Nutter‘s “JVM Bytecode for Dummies (and for the rest of you, as well)” was the last technical session for me early Monday evening. It was held in the Hilton San Francisco Yosemite Ballroom A/B ...

In the last year or two, interest in "alternative" languages on top of the Java Virtual Machine has grown exponentially, to the point where three languages were blessed with official acceptance in the ...

Chronon Systems, which offers technology for recording and playing back Java programs, contends that the bytecode verifier featured in Java 7 is a huge step backward for the Java virtual machine. “The ...

Abstract: The Android operating system is now used in the majority of mobile devices. Each application in Android runs in an instance of the Dalvik virtual machine, which is a register-based virtual ...

Abstract: Decompilation is the main process of software development, which is very important when a program tries to retrieve lost source codes. Although decompiling Java bytecode is easier than ...

“Every once in a while, someone will post a question on StackOverflow: 'Why can’t there just be one programming language to rule them all?'” says Aleksandar Prokopec, a principal researcher at Oracle ...

In the world of IDE-based development, programmers can easily become detached from JDK and the underlying technology that makes their applications work. Here is a list of the five most useful Java ...

at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged (Native Method) at javax.management.remote.rmi.RMIConnectionImpl.doPrivilegedOperation (RMIConnectionImpl.java:1408) ...