This talk guides intermediate to advanced developers through some of the detail of how JVM bytecode is structured and executed.
Basic features are covered, including:
* Constant Pool
* Stack-based interpretation
* Some details of classloading
* Reflection internals
The ASM library is introduced and used to rewrite JVM bytecode. The second half of the session is a set of “cookbook” techniques used for library authors and other power users, to demonstrate how ASM can be used in real world projects.
Ben Evans is an author, speaker, consultant & educator. His career highlights to date include: Co-founding jClarity, a startup that delivers performance tools & services to help development & ops teams; Chief Architect for Listed Derivatives at Deutsche Bank; Performance testing the Google IPO; building award-winning websites for some of Hollywood’s biggest hits of the 90s, developing some of the UK’s very first true e-commerce websites and building microsecond-level low-latency trading systems.
He helps to run the London Java Community, and represents the user community as a voting member on Java’s governing body - the JCP Executive Committee. He is a Java Champion & 3-time JavaOne Rock Star Speaker. Ben is author of 4 books - “The Well-Grounded Java Developer”, the 6th edition of “Java in a Nutshell”, “Java: The Legend” and the forthcoming “Optimizing Java”. He writes regularly for industry publications and is a frequent speaker at technical conferences worldwide.
