Contents

• Introduction
  • A quick peek into Java
  • About the Java Virtual Machine (JVM)
  • Porting vs. building our own JVM
  • Major results
  • Related work
  • Summary of Chapters
• Java Concepts
  • Object-Oriented
  • Simple
  • Distributed
  • Secure
  • Multithreaded
  • Classes
  • Methods
  • Variables
  • Inheritance
  • Interfaces
  • Exceptions
• The Java Virtual Machine (JVM)
  • The tasks of the JVM
  • Implementation architecture
• Class File format
  • Description
  • Implementation of the Parser
• Interpreter
  • Objects
  • Frames
  • The structure of the Interpreter
    • The registers
    • The execution
  • Resolution
    • Resolution algorithm
    • Resolved items
    • Opcode replacement
    • Resolution analysis
  • Native methods
    • Usage
    • Problems
    • Linking
    • Implementation status
• Execution and Linking
  • JVM Start-up
  • Loading
  • Linking
    • Verification
    • Preparation
  • Initialization
  • Comparison to conventional linking
  • Run-time comparison
• Exceptions and Errors
  • Exception usage
    • Creation and Throwing
    • The algorithm
  • Our implementation
  • Exceptions in other languages
• Scheduling threads
  • The thread object
  • The Scheduler
    • Scheduler implementation
    • Start-up
    • Change of threads
    • Finishing threads
  • Scheduler analysis
    • Priority
    • Interrupts
• Monitors
  • Java monitors
  • The monitor algorithm
  • Monitor structures
  • Handling of priorities
• Future development
  • Exceptions
  • Native methods
  • Resolving virtual methods
  • Global stack
  • Scheduler improvements
  • Just-In-Time compiler
• Conclusions
• References
• Opcode blocks
• The class file
  • Constant pool
  • Fields & Methods
  • SourceFile attribute
  • ConstantValue attribute
  • Code attribute
  • Exceptions attribute
  • LineNumberTable attribute
  • LocalVariableTable attribute
• Java API native methods
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