Chapter 1. Security
The Java programming language and runtime system were designed with security in mind. For example, pointer manipulation is implicit and hidden from the programmer, and any attempt to reference a null pointer results in an exception being thrown. Similarly, an exception results from any attempt to access an array or a string outside of its bounds. Java is a strongly typed language, and all implicit type conversions are well defined and platform independent, as are the arithmetic types and conversions. The Java Virtual Machine (JVM) has a built-in bytecode verifier to ensure that the bytecode being run conforms to the Java Language Specification: Java SE 7 Edition (JLS) so that all the checks defined in the language are in place ...
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