Inside the Java Virtual Machine
by Bill Venners
I'll be posting chapters of Inside the Java 2 Virtual Machine
in the coming weeks and months.
Table of Contents
Links to reprints of each chapter of the book:
- Chapter 1 -- "Introduction to Java's Architecture".
- Chapter 2 -- "Platform Independence".
- Chapter 3 -- "Security".
- Chapter 4 -- "Network Mobility".
- Chapter 5 -- "The Java Virtual Machine".
- Chapter 6 -- "The Java Class File".
- Chapter 7 -- "The Lifetime of a Type".
- Chapter 8 -- "The Linking Model".
- Chapter 9 -- "Garbage Collection".
- Chapter 10 -- "Stack and Local Variable Operations".
- Chapter 11 -- "Type Conversion".
- Chapter 12 -- "Integer Arithmetic".
- Chapter 13 -- "Logic".
- Chapter 14 -- "Floating Point Arithmetic".
- Chapter 15 -- "Objects and Arrays".
- Chapter 16 -- "Control Flow".
- Chapter 17 -- "Exceptions".
- Chapter 18 -- "Finally Clauses".
- Chapter 19 -- "Method Invocation and Return".
- Chapter 20 -- "Thread Synchronization".
The Feedback Page
If you have a suggestion on how to improve this book or wish to report a bug or error, please visit The Feedback Page,
which will give you instructions on how to submit your comment.
The Interactive Illustrations Web Site
The CD-ROM delivered along with the book contains a set of web pages called
the Interactive Illustrations Web Site. These web pages contain
applets that illustrate the concepts presented in the text.