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The Java® Virtual Machine Specification, Java SE 8 Edition
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The Java® Virtual Machine Specification, Java SE 8 Edition

by Tim Lindholm, Frank Yellin, Gilad Bracha, Alex Buckley
May 2014
Intermediate to advanced
600 pages
11h 26m
English
Addison-Wesley Professional
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Preface to the Java SE 8 Edition

The Java SE 8 Edition of The Java® Virtual Machine Specification incorporates all the changes that have been made to the Java Virtual Machine since the Java SE 7 Edition in 2011. In addition, numerous corrections and clarifications have been made to align with popular implementations of the Java Virtual Machine.

This Edition continues the tradition of specifying the abstract Java Virtual Machine, serving as documentation for a concrete implementation only as a blueprint documents a house. An implementation of the Java Virtual Machine must embody this specification, but is constrained by it only where absolutely necessary.

Notable changes to the Java programming language in Java SE 8 have brought corresponding ...

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