Java and the Java Virtual Machine

1. Front Matter

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2. Introduction

   1. Introduction

      • Robert F. Stärk, Joachim Schmid, Egon Börger

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3. Abstract State Machine

   1. Abstract State Machines

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      Pages 15-28

4. Java

   1. Front Matter

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   2. The imperative core Java _I of Java

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   3. The procedural extension Java _C of Java _I

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      Pages 47-69

   4. The object-oriented extension \({\text{Jav}}{{\text{a}}_\mathcal{O}}\) of Java _c

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      Pages 71-85

   5. The exception-handling extension Java _ε of \({\text{Jav}}{{\text{a}}_\mathcal{O}}\)

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      Pages 87-94

   6. The concurrent extension Java _T of Java _ε

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      Pages 95-110

   7. Java is type safe

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      Pages 111-134

5. Compilation of Java: The Trustful JVM

   1. Front Matter

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   2. The JVM _I submachine

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      Pages 139-146

   3. The procedural extension JVM _C of JVM _I

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      Pages 147-154

   4. The object-oriented extension \({\text{JV}}{{\text{M}}_\mathcal{O}}\) of JVM _c

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      Pages 155-158

   5. The exception-handling extension JVM _ε of \({\text{JV}}{{\text{M}}_\mathcal{O}}\)

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      Pages 159-164

   6. Executing the JVM _N

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   7. Correctness of the compiler

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      Pages 167-203

6. Bytecode Verification: The Secure JVM

   1. Front Matter

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   2. The defensive virtual machine

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      Pages 209-222

   3. Bytecode type assignments

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      Pages 223-271

The origin of this book goes back to the Dagstuhl seminar on Logic for System Engineering, organized during the first week of March 1997 by S. Jiihnichen, J. Loeckx, and M. Wirsing. During that seminar, after Egon Borger's talk on How to Use Abstract State Machines in Software Engineering, Wolfram Schulte, at the time a research assistant at the University of Ulm, Germany, questioned whether ASMs provide anything special as a scientifically well­ founded and rigorous yet simple and industrially viable framework for high­ level design and analysis of complex systems, and for natural refinements of models to executable code. Wolfram Schulte argued, referring to his work with K. Achatz on A Formal Object-Oriented Method Inspired by Fusion and Object-Z [1], that with current techniques of functional programming and of axiomatic specification, one can achieve the same result. An intensive and long debate arose from this discussion. At the end of the week, it led Egon Borger to propose a collaboration on a real-life specification project of Wolfram Schulte's choice, as a comparative field test of purely functional­ declarative methods and of their enhancement within an integrated abstract state-based operational (ASM) approach. After some hesitation, in May 1997 Wolfram Schulte accepted the offer and chose as the theme a high-level specification of Java and of the Java Virtual Machine.

• C programming language
• Constraint
• Java
• Java Card
• Java Virtual Machine
• Natural
• programming
• programming language
• security
• testing
• validation
• virtual machine

From the reviews:

"A professional Java programmer must know what his program exactly will do, if it is run on a Java Virtual Machine (JVM). To help these professionals, the book presents a mathematical framework using the notation of Abstract State Machines (ASMs). … it is addressed to professional software engineers and to advanced students who require a complete and exact definition of Java and of the behaviour of the JVM. With AsmGofer an interesting experimental system for program verification is available." (W. Brecht, Zentralblatt MATH, Vol. 978, 2002)

• Theoretische Informatik, ETH Zentrum, Zürich, Switzerland

  Robert F. Stärk

• Siemens AG, München, Germany

  Joachim Schmid

• Dipartimento di Informatica, Università di Pisa, Pisa, Italy

  Egon Börger

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