If you are an industry professional in need of a good software that interprets Java bytecode, go for HotSpot, OpenJ9, JRockit, Squawk VM, or Apache Harmony.

A developer claims that Java 7's new bytecode verifier slows performance and increases coding effort, potentially affecting the entire Java ecosystem.

Javassist (JAVA programming ASSISTant) makes Java bytecode manipulation simple. It is a class library for editing bytecodes in Java; it enables Java programs to define a new class at runtime and to ...

In this article, we're going to examine the JVM bytecode set, disassemble some code to see how it works, and play with some tools that allow us to manipulate bytecode directly.

Because the bytecode consists of a series of 0s and 1s, it is not human-readable or human-understandable. To produce bytecode, the compiler might require additional memory. How the Java compiler works ...

As the bytecode produced by the Java compiler is unoptimized, the bytecode generated from certain types of idiomatic Java code is inefficient for execution in an interpreter. This effect is amplified ...

Decompilation of Java bytecode is the act of transforming Java bytecode to Java source code. Although easier than that of decompilation of machine code, problems still arise in Java bytecode ...

The Java Bytecode Toolkit application was developed to assist developers and reverse engineers with analyzing Java class files, which are files containing various data about a Java class, including ...