The Java language includes various behaviors that may puzzle newcomers to the language. This post examines three such behaviors involving arrays, bytes and shorts, and private fields and methods.

In its 20 years, Java is used for building everything from mobile phone apps to video games to enterprise IT applications. The language is designed to run across multiple software platforms.

Clearly, in such “mixed language” applications the ability to use Java with ASM can be useful. Note that the technique shown here can also be used to call Java code from languages other than ASM.

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