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Java would get an API for processing Java class files, under a proposal afoot in the Java community. The draft classfile API proposal calls for provision of an API for parsing, generating, and ...

Software from Oracle that converts a program in Java bytecode (intermediate language) into machine language and executes it. The Java Virtual Machine (JVM) is the runtime engine of the Java Platform, ...

An earlier CPU chip specifications from Sun that contained RAM, I/O and the Java Virtual Machine. Based on Sun's picoJava architecture, Java chips were designed to speed up applications by natively ...

Jazelle Extension Another way to speed Java execution on a standard RISC architecture is to extend the architecture itself, to directly execute Java instructions. ARM designers added a new Java ...

Attackers can hide their attempts to execute malicious code by inserting commands into the machine code stored in memory by the software interpreters used by many programming languages, such as ...

When I first heard about Mainsoft Corp.’s Visual MainWin for Java 2 Enterprise Edition (J2EE), I thought the concept was a harebrained idea. Just skimming some of the product’s help topics sent me ...

Leaning Technologies has released CheerpJ 3.0, a WebAssembly JVM that runs in modern web browsers. CheerpJ 3.0 is a full rewrite of CheerpJ that supports “very large” Java applications, such as ...

Microsoft and several other industry heavyweights have joined to incorporate the Bytecode Alliance, on a mission to create new software foundations based on standards such as WebAssembly, a key ...