JVM internals documentation?

Ted Neward ted at tedneward.com
Mon Oct 15 18:46:51 PDT 2007


I knew about that already; is there anything "deeper" and/or more detailed?

Ted Neward
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: James.Melvin at Sun.COM [mailto:James.Melvin at Sun.COM]
> Sent: Sunday, October 14, 2007 1:40 PM
> To: Ted Neward
> Cc: hotspot-dev at openjdk.java.net
> Subject: Re: JVM internals documentation?
> 
> Hi Ted,
> 
> Here is a good place to start...
> 
> http://openjdk.java.net/groups/hotspot
> 
> There are several docs covering various Hotspot subsystems and
> internals, including a glossary of terms.
> 
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Jim
> 
> 
> Ted Neward wrote:
> >
> >
> > I’m looking to start crawling through the JVM sources, and was just
> > looking for documentation to help keep the major parts (GC, JIT
> > compiler, Reflection, ClassLoaders, etc) straight. John Rose
> mentioned
> > that there may be some “internals” documentation/specs that describe
> > some of the internal data structures and such—are those available,
> and
> > if not, is there a plan to open-source them real-soon-now?
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > Ted Neward
> >
> > Java, .NET, XML Services
> >
> > Consulting, Teaching, Speaking, Writing
> >
> > http://www.tedneward.com
> >
> >
> >
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