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A lazy developer approach: building a JVM with third party software

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Nicolas Geoffray,

Charles Clément,

Bertil FolliotAuthors Info & Claims

PPPJ '08: Proceedings of the 6th international symposium on Principles and practice of programming in Java

Pages 73 - 82

https://doi.org/10.1145/1411732.1411743

Published: 09 September 2008 Publication History

Abstract

The development of a complete Java Virtual Machine (JVM) implementation is a tedious process which involves knowledge in different areas: garbage collection, just in time compilation, interpretation, file parsing, data structures, etc. The result is that developing its own virtual machine requires a considerable amount of man/year. In this paper we show that one can implement a JVM with third party software and with performance comparable to industrial and top open-source JVMs on scientific applications. Our proof-of-concept implementation uses existing versions of a garbage collector, a just in time compiler, and the base library, and is robust enough to execute complex Java applications such as the OSGi Felix implementation and the Tomcat servlet container.

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A lazy developer approach: building a JVM with third party software
1. Software and its engineering
  1. Software organization and properties
    1. Software system structures
      1. Software architectures

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PPPJ '08: Proceedings of the 6th international symposium on Principles and practice of programming in Java

September 2008

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ISBN:9781605582238

DOI:10.1145/1411732

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