For those who want to understand how Java really works, this book certainly provides the goods, with excellent technical detail and demos of JVMs in action on the companion CDs. This title provides a very detailed tour of the internal of the Java platform, with lots of technical information about how virtual machines do business under the hood, from the way the reporting language transformed into bytecode for the class call the unloading depth, security and garbage collection Dragan. - Richard Topics covered: Java Virtual Machine (JVM) class architecture, the Java class loader, tips for platform independence, Java security, verifying class files, code-signing, network mobility, Jini basis, the organization's lifetime of Java classes. Files, Java objects, connecting the model, garbage collection basics and algorithms, stack operations, type conversions, integer and floating-point arithmetic, objects and arrays, control flow, exceptions and finally clauses, method invocation, thread synchronization, Java opcode and quickcode reference, and JVM simulation demos.