Understanding Java Byte Code

Java, Scala, Groovy: in the end, all JVM languages compile down to the class file format and Java byte code. It is thanks to the flexibility of this intermediate instruction set that the JVM became a platform so rich in languages.

The ability to generate byte code at run time is a prerequisite for many popular libraries such as Spring or Hibernate. This talk gives an introduction to compiled Java code and discusses different libraries for generating classes at run time....

 

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