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Chris Lamb





PostPosted: 2005-12-12 2:20:00 Top

java-programmer, programming the JVM Hi,

I'm wanting to program the JVM independant of a compiler by
emitting bytecodes directly and I have orderd the book by J Engel
'Programming for the JVM'.
The lead on this book from amazon is 4-6 weeks which (may?) turn
into never. Does anyone here have recommendations for alternate
texts (that are introductory/tutorial in nature, rather than
reference texts) and websites that may help me with this - so
I don't just sit kicking my heels while it possibly doesn't arrive?
I've hunted in most of the obvious places but nothing seems to
fit the need or cover the topics that the Engel book does
sensibly.

TIA

Chris
 
Thomas Hawtin





PostPosted: 2005-12-12 7:04:00 Top

java-programmer >> programming the JVM Chris Lamb wrote:
>
> I'm wanting to program the JVM independant of a compiler by
> emitting bytecodes directly and I have orderd the book by J Engel
> 'Programming for the JVM'.
> The lead on this book from amazon is 4-6 weeks which (may?) turn
> into never. Does anyone here have recommendations for alternate
> texts (that are introductory/tutorial in nature, rather than
> reference texts) and websites that may help me with this - so
> I don't just sit kicking my heels while it possibly doesn't arrive?
> I've hunted in most of the obvious places but nothing seems to
> fit the need or cover the topics that the Engel book does
> sensibly.

The obvious text is the JVM spec itself. I their are introductory
tutorials for ASM and BCEL that cover the contents of class files as
well as use of the libraries.

Tom Hawtin
--
Unemployed English Java programmer
http://jroller.com/page/tackline/
 
Chris Lamb





PostPosted: 2005-12-13 20:04:00 Top

java-programmer >> programming the JVM On Sun, 11 Dec 2005 23:04:18 +0000, Thomas Hawtin wrote:

> Chris Lamb wrote:
>>
>> I'm wanting to program the JVM independant of a compiler by
>> emitting bytecodes directly and I have orderd the book by J Engel
>> 'Programming for the JVM'.
>> The lead on this book from amazon is 4-6 weeks which (may?) turn
>> into never. Does anyone here have recommendations for alternate
>> texts (that are introductory/tutorial in nature, rather than
>> reference texts) and websites that may help me with this - so
>> I don't just sit kicking my heels while it possibly doesn't arrive?
>> I've hunted in most of the obvious places but nothing seems to
>> fit the need or cover the topics that the Engel book does
>> sensibly.
>
> The obvious text is the JVM spec itself. I their are introductory
> tutorials for ASM and BCEL that cover the contents of class files as
> well as use of the libraries.
>
> Tom Hawtin

Thanks - amazon now has my order....

rgds

Chris