Java and the Java Virtual Machine - Definition, Verification, Validation

Java and the Java Virtual Machine - Definition, Verification, Validation (2001)

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TITLE	Java and the Java Virtual Machine - Definition, Verification, Validation	user correction - Legacy Corrections
AUTHOR NAME	Robert Stärk	user correction - Legacy Corrections
AUTHOR NAME	Joachim Schmid	user correction - Legacy Corrections
AUTHOR NAME	Egon Börger	user correction - Legacy Corrections
ABSTRACT	State Machines which one may view as code written in an abstract programming language, can be applied to other virtual machines and to other programming languages as well. The target readers are practitioners---programmers, implementors, standardizers, lecturers, students---who need for their work a complete, correct, and at the same time transparent definition, and an executable model of the language and of the virtual machine underlying its intended implementation. As a consequence, in our models for the language and the machine, we first of all try to directly and faithfully reflect, in a complete way, as far as possible without becoming inconsistent, and in an unambiguous yet for the human reader graspable way, the intuitions and design decisions which are expressed in the reference manuals [18, 23] and underlie the current implementations of the language and the machine. We clarify various ambiguities and inconsistencies we discovered in the manuals and in the implementations, concerning fundamental notions like legal Java program, legal bytecode, verifiable bytecode, etc. Our analysis of the JVM bytecode verifier, which we relate to the static analysis of the Java parser (rules of definite assignment and reachability analysis), goes beyond the work of Stata and Abadi [34], Qian [27, 28], Freund and Mitchell [16], and O'Callahan [26]. 1.1 The goals of the book 3 In this introduction, we give an overview of the general goals of the book, its contents, the structuring techniques we use for decomposing Java and the JVM, and the literature we used. For additional information on the book and updates made after its publication, see the Home Page of Jbook at http://www.inf.ethz.ch/~jbook. 1.1 The goals of the book Our main goal is not to write an introduction to progr...	user correction - Legacy Corrections
YEAR	2001	user correction - Legacy Corrections
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