A safe approximate algorithm for interprocedural aliasing
PLDI '92 Proceedings of the ACM SIGPLAN 1992 conference on Programming language design and implementation
Context-sensitive interprocedural points-to analysis in the presence of function pointers
PLDI '94 Proceedings of the ACM SIGPLAN 1994 conference on Programming language design and implementation
Points-to analysis in almost linear time
POPL '96 Proceedings of the 23rd ACM SIGPLAN-SIGACT symposium on Principles of programming languages
Program decomposition for pointer aliasing: a step toward practical analyses
SIGSOFT '96 Proceedings of the 4th ACM SIGSOFT symposium on Foundations of software engineering
Flow insensitive C++ pointers and polymorphism analysis and its application to slicing
ICSE '97 Proceedings of the 19th international conference on Software engineering
Fast and accurate flow-insensitive points-to analysis
Proceedings of the 24th ACM SIGPLAN-SIGACT symposium on Principles of programming languages
Call graph construction in object-oriented languages
Proceedings of the 12th ACM SIGPLAN conference on Object-oriented programming, systems, languages, and applications
Partial online cycle elimination in inclusion constraint graphs
PLDI '98 Proceedings of the ACM SIGPLAN 1998 conference on Programming language design and implementation
Proceedings of the 26th ACM SIGPLAN-SIGACT symposium on Principles of programming languages
Pointer analysis for programs with structures and casting
Proceedings of the ACM SIGPLAN 1999 conference on Programming language design and implementation
Points-to analysis for program understanding
Journal of Systems and Software
Variable-precision reaching definitions analysis
Journal of Software Maintenance: Research and Practice
Data-flow analysis of program fragments
ESEC/FSE-7 Proceedings of the 7th European software engineering conference held jointly with the 7th ACM SIGSOFT international symposium on Foundations of software engineering
Projection merging: reducing redundancies in inclusion constraint graphs
Proceedings of the 27th ACM SIGPLAN-SIGACT symposium on Principles of programming languages
Testing object-oriented systems: models, patterns, and tools
Testing object-oriented systems: models, patterns, and tools
Unification-based pointer analysis with directional assignments
PLDI '00 Proceedings of the ACM SIGPLAN 2000 conference on Programming language design and implementation
Off-line variable substitution for scaling points-to analysis
PLDI '00 Proceedings of the ACM SIGPLAN 2000 conference on Programming language design and implementation
Modular interprocedural pointer analysis using access paths: design, implementation, and evaluation
PLDI '00 Proceedings of the ACM SIGPLAN 2000 conference on Programming language design and implementation
Effective synchronization removal for Java
PLDI '00 Proceedings of the ACM SIGPLAN 2000 conference on Programming language design and implementation
Ultra-fast aliasing analysis using CLA: a million lines of C code in a second
Proceedings of the ACM SIGPLAN 2001 conference on Programming language design and implementation
Pointer analysis: haven't we solved this problem yet?
PASTE '01 Proceedings of the 2001 ACM SIGPLAN-SIGSOFT workshop on Program analysis for software tools and engineering
Extending and evaluating flow-insenstitive and context-insensitive points-to analyses for Java
PASTE '01 Proceedings of the 2001 ACM SIGPLAN-SIGSOFT workshop on Program analysis for software tools and engineering
A schema for interprocedural modification side-effect analysis with pointer aliasing
ACM Transactions on Programming Languages and Systems (TOPLAS)
Points-to analysis for Java using annotated constraints
OOPSLA '01 Proceedings of the 16th ACM SIGPLAN conference on Object-oriented programming, systems, languages, and applications
A framework for call graph construction algorithms
ACM Transactions on Programming Languages and Systems (TOPLAS)
Efficient Java RMI for parallel programming
ACM Transactions on Programming Languages and Systems (TOPLAS)
Java RMI
Parameterized object sensitivity for points-to and side-effect analyses for Java
ISSTA '02 Proceedings of the 2002 ACM SIGSOFT international symposium on Software testing and analysis
PLDI '03 Proceedings of the ACM SIGPLAN 2003 conference on Programming language design and implementation
Validating Run-time Interactions in Distributed Java Applications
ICECCS '02 Proceedings of the Eighth International Conference on Engineering of Complex Computer Systems
Supporting interactive invocation of remote services within an integrated programming environment
PPPJ '03 Proceedings of the 2nd international conference on Principles and practice of programming in Java
Cloning-based context-sensitive pointer alias analysis using binary decision diagrams
Proceedings of the ACM SIGPLAN 2004 conference on Programming language design and implementation
Java(TM) Language Specification, The (3rd Edition) (Java (Addison-Wesley))
Java(TM) Language Specification, The (3rd Edition) (Java (Addison-Wesley))
Parameterized object sensitivity for points-to analysis for Java
ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology (TOSEM)
Static Analysis of Object References in RMI-Based Java Software
ICSM '05 Proceedings of the 21st IEEE International Conference on Software Maintenance
Formalising Java RMI with explicit code mobility
OOPSLA '05 Proceedings of the 20th annual ACM SIGPLAN conference on Object-oriented programming, systems, languages, and applications
Evaluating the impact of context-sensitivity on Andersen's algorithm for Java programs
PASTE '05 Proceedings of the 6th ACM SIGPLAN-SIGSOFT workshop on Program analysis for software tools and engineering
Dimensions of precision in reference analysis of object-oriented programming languages
CC'03 Proceedings of the 12th international conference on Compiler construction
Scaling Java points-to analysis using SPARK
CC'03 Proceedings of the 12th international conference on Compiler construction
Interprocedural dataflow analysis in the presence of large libraries
CC'06 Proceedings of the 15th international conference on Compiler Construction
Context-Sensitive points-to analysis: is it worth it?
CC'06 Proceedings of the 15th international conference on Compiler Construction
Identifying Data Transfer Objects in EJB Applications
WODA '07 Proceedings of the 5th International Workshop on Dynamic Analysis
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Distributed applications provide numerous advantages related to software performance, reliability, interoperability, and extensibility. This paper focuses on distributed Java programs built with the help of the Remote Method Invocation (RMI) mechanism. We consider points-to analysis for such applications. Points-to analysis determines the objects pointed to by a reference variable or a reference object field. Such information plays a fundamental role as a prerequisite for many other static analyses. We present the first theoretical definition of points-to analysis for RMI-based Java applications, and we present an algorithm for implementing a flow- and context-insensitive points-to analysis for such applications. We also discuss the use of points-to information for computing call graph information, for understanding data dependencies due to remote memory locations, and for identifying opportunities for improving the performance of object serialization at remote calls. The work described in this paper solves one key problem for static analysis of RMI programs and provides a starting point for future work on improving the understanding, testing, verification, and performance of RMI-based software.