Java and the Java Virtual Machine
Definition, Verification, Validation
Published on 20. June 2001
Book
Hardback
X, 381 pages
978-3-540-42088-0 (ISBN)
Description
The origin of this book goes back to the Dagstuhl seminar on Logic for System Engineering, organized during the first week of March 1997 by S. Jiihnichen, J. Loeckx, and M. Wirsing. During that seminar, after Egon Borger's talk on How to Use Abstract State Machines in Software Engineering, Wolfram Schulte, at the time a research assistant at the University of Ulm, Germany, questioned whether ASMs provide anything special as a scientifically well founded and rigorous yet simple and industrially viable framework for high level design and analysis of complex systems, and for natural refinements of models to executable code. Wolfram Schulte argued, referring to his work with K. Achatz on A Formal Object-Oriented Method Inspired by Fusion and Object-Z [1], that with current techniques of functional programming and of axiomatic specification, one can achieve the same result. An intensive and long debate arose from this discussion. At the end of the week, it led Egon Borger to propose a collaboration on a real-life specification project of Wolfram Schulte's choice, as a comparative field test of purely functional declarative methods and of their enhancement within an integrated abstract state-based operational (ASM) approach. After some hesitation, in May 1997 Wolfram Schulte accepted the offer and chose as the theme a high-level specification of Java and of the Java Virtual Machine.
Reviews / Votes
From the reviews:"A professional Java programmer must know what his program exactly will do, if it is run on a Java Virtual Machine (JVM). To help these professionals, the book presents a mathematical framework using the notation of Abstract State Machines (ASMs). . it is addressed to professional software engineers and to advanced students who require a complete and exact definition of Java and of the behaviour of the JVM. With AsmGofer an interesting experimental system for program verification is available." (W. Brecht, Zentralblatt MATH, Vol. 978, 2002)More details
Edition
2001 ed.
Language
English
Place of publication
Berlin
Germany
Publishing group
Springer Berlin
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Research
Illustrations
13 s/w Abbildungen
X, 381 p. 13 illus. With online files/update.
Dimensions
Height: 23.5 cm
Width: 15.5 cm
Weight
733 gr
ISBN-13
978-3-540-42088-0 (9783540420880)
DOI
10.1007/978-3-642-59495-3
Schweitzer Classification
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Definition, Verification, Validation
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Content
1. Introduction.- 1.1 The goals of the book.- 1.2 The contents of the book.- 1.3 Decomposing Java and the JVM.- 1.4 Sources and literature.- 2. Abstract State Machines.- 2.1 ASMs in a nutshell.- 2.2 Mathematical definition of ASMs.- 2.3 Notational conventions.- I. Java.- 3. The imperative core JavaI of Java.- 4. The procedural extension JavaC of JavaI.- 5. The object-oriented extension $${\text{Jav}}{{\text{a}}_\mathcal{O}}$$ of JavaC.- 6. The exception-handling extension Java? of $${\text{Jav}}{{\text{a}}_\mathcal{O}}$$.- 7. The concurrent extension JavaT of Java?.- 8. Java is type safe.- II. Compilation of Java: The Trustful JVM.- 9. The JVMI submachine.- 10. The procedural extension JVMC of JVMI.- 11. The object-oriented extension $${\text{JV}}{{\text{M}}_\mathcal{O}}$$ of JVMC.- 12. The exception-handling extension JVM? of $${\text{JV}}{{\text{M}}_\mathcal{O}}$$.- 13. Executing the JVMN.- 14. Correctness of the compiler.- III. Bytecode Verification: The Secure JVM.- 15. The defensive virtual machine.- 16. Bytecode type assignments.- 17. The diligent virtual machine.- 18. The dynamic virtual machine.- A. Executable Models.- A.1 Overview.- A.2 Java.- A.3 Compiler.- A.4 Java Virtual Machine.- B. Java.- B.1 Rules.- B.2 Arrays.- C. JVM.- C.1 Trustful execution.- C.2 Defensive execution.- C.3 Diligent execution.- C.4 Check functions.- C.5 Successor functions.- C.6 Constraints.- C.7 Arrays.- C.8 Abstract versus real instructions.- D. Compiler.- D.1 Compilation functions.- D.2 maxOpd.- D.3 Arrays.- References.- List of Figures.- List of Tables.