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The Well-Grounded Java Developer, Second Edition
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The Well-Grounded Java Developer, Second Edition

by Jason Clark, Martijn Verburg, Benjamin Evans
November 2022
Intermediate to advanced
704 pages
19h 58m
English
Manning Publications
Content preview from The Well-Grounded Java Developer, Second Edition

Part 2. Under the hood

This part of the book is all about exploring how the JVM actually works. You’ll start off examining class loading. Many Java developers don’t have a good understanding of how the JVM actually loads, links, and verifies classes. This leads to frustration and wasted time when an “incorrect” version of some class is executed due to some sort of classloader conflict.

Being able to dive into the internals of a Java class file and the bytecode it contains is a powerful debugging skill. You’ll see how to use javap to navigate and understand the meaning of bytecode.

Next, you’ll come to grips with the multicore CPU revolution occurring in hardware. The well-grounded Java developer needs to be aware of Java’s concurrency capabilities. ...

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