The Java Class File Disassembler (javap) is a useful tool for the Java developer that I have referenced in previous blog posts covering a variety of contexts such as detecting the innards of a Groovy ...

Java would get an API for processing Java class files, under a proposal afoot in the Java community. The draft classfile API proposal calls for provision of an API for parsing, generating, and ...

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A Java compiler is a program that takes the text file work of a developer and compiles it into a platform-independent Java file. Java compilers include the Java Programming Language Compiler (javac), ...

Over the last few months, we have looked at server-side Java from a number of perspectives. We began with servlets, Java classes that are executed from within a servlet container. While programmers ...

Throughout this book, we will be using Java 1 as the language of choice for controlling our network-enabled devices. In this chapter, we will discuss getting the Java Development Kit (JDK version 1.3) ...

I need to be able to see into a compiled java .class file and retrieve all members, constants, functions, etc. á la reflection, and the code has to be in C++, can't use java :-( . Are there any open ...