Java programs distributed through Internet are now suffering from program theft. It is because Java programs can be easily decomposed into reusable class files and even decompiled...
software in the form of abstract classes; and the specification elements of the language can also be used in concrete classes to document the implementations and their development ...
To date, systems offering multitasking for the JavaTM programming language either use one process or one class loader for each application. Both approaches are unsatisfactory. Usi...
Programs designed from scratch often start with just a set of classes. Classes can be instantiated and so deliver the objects that are the carriers of information and function. In...
—In this paper, we present fast and efficient methods for the lossy encoding of object boundaries that are given as eight-connect chain codes. We approximate the boundary by a p...