invokedynamic was the first new Java bytecode since Java 1.0 and was crucial in implementing the "headline" features of Java 8 (such as lambdas and default methods). In this article, we take a ...

Four steps towards dynamic code. Let me reveal what’s going on behind the scenes. Basically, there are four steps to make Java code dynamic: Deploy selected source code and monitor file changes ...

Flow of control in behaviors. Java is not a dynamic language; to simulate a dynamic language’s features in Java, you must add a certain amount of “glue” to each class method that may be ...

The idea of dynamic instruction set is a good method to achieve the embedded system’s re-configurability. This paper presents a convenient method for a Java processor to work with dynamic ...