Inside the Java Virtual Machine

  • Authors:
  • Bill Venners

  • Affiliations:
  • -

  • Venue:
  • Inside the Java Virtual Machine
  • Year:
  • 1996

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Abstract

From the Book:My primary goal in writing this book was to explain the Java virtual machine-and several core Java APIs closely related to the virtual machine-to Java programmers. Although the Java virtual machine incorporates technologies that have been tried and proven in other programming languages, prior to Java, many of these technologies had not yet entered into common use. As a consequence, many programmers will encounter these technologies for the first time as they begin to program in Java. Garbage collection, multi-threading, exception handling, dynamic extension---even the use of a virtual machine itself-might be new to many programmers. The aim of this book is to help programmers understand how all these things work, and in the process we hope to help them become more adept at Java programming. Another goal I had in mind as I wrote this book was to experiment a bit with the changing nature of text. Web pages have three interesting characteristics that differentiate them from paper-based text: they are dynamic (can evolve over time), they are interactive (especially if you embed Java applets in them), and they are interconnected (you can easily navigate from one to another). Besides the traditional text and figures, this book includes several Java applets (in a mini-Web site on the CD-ROM) that serve as interactive illustrations of the concepts presented in the text. In addition, I maintain a Web site at art ima. com on the Internet that serves as a launching point for readers to find more (and more current) information about the topics covered in the book. This book is composed of all of these components: text, figures, interactive illustra. tions, and constantly evolving links tofurther reading.