Abstract. In an interpreted execution there is an interdependence between the interpreter's execution and the interpreted application's execution; the implementation of t...
The Java Programming Language has been praised for its platform independence and portability, but because of its slow execution speed on a software Java Virtual Machine (JVM), som...
Fragmentation can cause serious loss of memory in systems that are using dynamic memory management. Any useful memory management system must therefore provide means to limit fragm...
The standard reflection API of Java provides the ability to introspect a program but not to alter program behavior. This paper presents an extension to the reflection API for addr...
The requirement for 24/7 availability of distributed applications complicates their maintenance and evolution as shutting down such applications to perform updates may not be an a...
Robert Pawel Bialek, Eric Jul, Jean-Guy Schneider,...