Direct execution of Java byte code is possible thanks to a Java extension to the ARM processor core by ARM Ltd., Cambridge, England. Known as Jazelle, the new Java acceleration feature initially ...

For example, as a post-compilation step you could massage the .class data to make the byte code either harder to read when decompiled or harder to decompile into valid Java code (or both).

The Working Developer's Guide to Java Bytecode In this article, we're going to examine the JVM bytecode set, disassemble some code to see how it works, and play with some tools that allow us to ...

The code above looks quite familiar to Java programmers, except for the method body, where executable code is written in the Jamaica bytecode instruction format.

Not anymore. Last year, [Michael] wrote Java Grinder, a Java byte-code compiler that compiles classes into assembly language instead of being part of a JVM.

JAVA is true when the output of compilation is Java bytecode, and NET is true when the output is Microsoft IL. Use of these compilation constants allows you to create platform-agnostic source code.

A Java system is complicated, expensive and difficult to modify for portable connected devices because it is software-centric. It's not easy to design hardware technology to execute in a Java ...

Users demand that their applications run fast, but working with Java bytecode presents optimization problems that other architectures do not encounter. Here we look at how to improve the performance ...