Few developers ever work with Java bytecode directly, but bytecode format is not difficult to grok. In this article Rafael Winterhalter takes us on a tour of Java bytecode & some of its capabilities.

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The extreme ease with which Java .class files can be reconstructed into Java sources that closely resemble the originals has a lot to do with Java byte-code design goals and trade-offs.

Understanding program dependencies in a computer program is essential for many software engineering tasks such as program understanding, testing, debugging, reverse engineering, and maintenance. The ...

Using abstract syntax tree as the basis of static analysis of Java program have many difficulties. The paper defines a XML data structure for Java bytecode, instead of abstract syntax tree as the ...

Because the bytecode consists of a series of 0s and 1s, it is not human-readable or human-understandable. To produce bytecode, the compiler might require additional memory. How the Java compiler works ...