… Visitors to Web pages incorporating dynamic content can be assured that their machines cannot
be … Programmers can write a program once, and it will run on any machine supplying a … The Java
Virtual Machine The Java Virtual Machine is the cornerstone of the Java platform …

… virtual machine specification defines the range of values for each of the data types, but does not
define their sizes. The number of bits used to store each data type value is a decision of the
designers of individual implementations. The ranges of the Java virtual machines data …

The Java® programming language is a general-purpose, concurrent, object-oriented
language. Its syntax is similar to C and C++, but it omits many of the features that make C
and C++ complex, confusing, and unsafe. The Java platform was initially developed to …

… hardware, those deemed critical for system performance execute through microcode or state
machines … In addition to the instruction set defined by the Java Virtual Machine, picoJava-I
implements … extended instructions in the reserved opcode space set aside in the specification …

… 1]. 2 JVMz and the Compilation of Javaz Programs For the specification of Java,
the JVM and the proof machinery, we use Ab- stract State Machines (ASMs). ASM …
Nat Instr * Page 3. Defining the Java Virtual Machine 19 The …

… We build stepwise refined models for the language, the virtual machine, and the compiler that
are … To formulate our models for Java and the JVM as consisting of compo- nents … reflect different
language and security features, we use Gurevich's Abstract State Machines(ASMs), a …

… However, no formal specification of the bytecode verifier exists in the Java Virtual Machine
Specification published by Sun … We refer the reader to the Java Virtual Machine specification
for a detailed discussion of these bytecode instructions [29] …

… The virtual nature of the JVM specification means that low-level mechanisms such as interrupt
and trap … 3.8 Multiple concurrent Java Virtual Machines … time embedded single-chip Java
microcontroller based on the JEM2 core that integrates Java Virtual Machine (JVM) bytecode …

… and live-precise stack maps, which is of greater relevance in Java virtual machines than many …
pmgmmming language specification [Gosling et al., 19961 as with the Java virtual machine
specification [Lind- holm & … 'Ihis does not appear to violate the Java programming language …