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The Java(TM) Virtual Machine Specification (2nd Edition)
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Author: Tim Lindholm, Frank Yellin
List Price: $49.99
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ISBN: 0201432943
Publisher: Addison-Wesley Pub Co (14 April, 1999)
Edition: Paperback
Sales Rank: 58,195
Average Customer Rating: 3.6 out of 5
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Customer ReviewsRating: 4 out of 5
Know Thy JVM
the pace is a little stilted, and the plot is quite worn-out, but I love the wildly surrealistic sections...
Rating: 1 out of 5
Be careful of the copyright and license agreement!
This book has a very unusual copyright notice. By using the information in this book, you implicitly enter into an agreement with Sun microsystems where any clean room Java implementations you write, from scratch, have to be submitted to Sun for conformance testing. I did not discover this until years after I bought the book. This kind of a "contract-by-fait-accompli" is illegal and unenforceable, but it may still be a pain to deal with. I suggest the Meyer and Downing book instead, since it is unencumbered.
Rating: 5 out of 5
Excellent reference for the JVM
If you're writing a Java compiler or Java Virtual Machine, this book is a must-have. It's also great for the serious Java programmer who is interested in the "guts" of how Java works. But if you want a tutorial on the JVM, you'll be better served by another book. Before you buy this book, you should also know that the on-line version is freely available.
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