Design, and implementation of a Java execution environment

Author

Chen, F.G. ; Hou, Ting-Wei

Author_Institution

Network Comput. Lab., Nat. Chen Kong Univ., Tainan, Taiwan

fYear

1998

fDate

14-16 Dec 1998

Firstpage

686

Lastpage

692

Abstract

Discusses how a Java execution environment, named Gabi, is designed and implemented. It includes the design and implementation of the interpreter of a Java Virtual Machine (JVM), the class loader, the frame and Java stack, the hash table (class table, native function table and Java string table), the handling of classes.zip, the interface to the native function, the interface to the just-in-time (JIT) compiler and its compiled code for Java methods and the multithreading support, and approaches to boost the performance of the bytecode interpreter by programming skills. Benchmarks are made to compare Gabi with Sun´s JRE (Java Runtime Environment)

Keywords

Java; application program interfaces; file organisation; multi-threading; program compilers; program interpreters; programming environments; software performance evaluation; virtual machines; Gabi; Java Runtime Environment; Java Virtual Machine; Java execution environment; Java methods; Java stack; Java string table; Sun JRE; benchmarks; bytecode interpreter; class loader; class table; compiled code; design; frame; hash table; implementation; interpreter; just-in-time compiler; multithreading support; native function interface; native function table; performance; programming skills; zip code handling; Computer networks; Electrical capacitance tomography; Java; Laboratories; Licenses; Operating systems; Runtime; Safety; Sun; Virtual machining;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Parallel and Distributed Systems, 1998. Proceedings. 1998 International Conference on

Conference_Location

Tainan

ISSN

1521-9097

Print_ISBN

0-8186-8603-0

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICPADS.1998.741156

Filename

741156