I have a problem with the invokespecial call.
I want to change part of my virtual calls (invokevirtual) by some
special calls (invokespecial). I know that in Java we use the
invokespecial only in 3 cases:

HOw do you make the JRE classloader support TLS1. I have a server which is
restricted to TLS1 which the latest Sun JRE cannot establish a connection
to.

Does someone know if the following exists for free on the Net ?
I am looking for a short (max. 50 pages or max. 70 slides) introduction
to the internals of the JVM. A kind of summary of all the important
mecanisms inside the JVM.

I am looking for a good quality c/c++ library for parsing java .class files. Any recommendations?
Thanks,
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Alkis

I have a applet/application jar file which includes following code to get a
gif file from the jar:
   String strFileIco = "logo.gif";
   URL urlIco = getClass().getResource(strFileIco);

j2sdk1.4.2_04
I have an appliction that has started generating a Java Virtual M/C Launcher
msg box 'Fatal exception occured,Program will exit'
This App was OK but now not running, the app does appear in running

I'm wrapping some Java around a large C++/COM API for a Windows
application via JNI.  I cannot see a way to implement one particular
feature of this API, so I'm posting here to see if it is:
a) impossible

My company has an ETL that runs 40 'threads', and does logic similiar
to a Java object I have created.  I am trying to convince them to call
my code instead (from the 40 threads) so we only maintain one code
base (a BIG issue).

I'm very interested in the internals of the garbage collector. I might
be doing a few questions here about that...
Here are a few to begin with:
How does the JVM-GC exactly find the root references to start browsing

i'm writing an internet maths application at the moment, and am using PHP to
do it, but it only (only..!) seems to handle numbers in the range -10billion
to +10billion or in that ballpark.
I was wondering what sized numbers java can handle. I used a JAVA

I have a customer which is using a laptop containing the ATI Radeon 7500
chipset.  Running my application causes his entire computer to freeze,
for some reason.  We've had other customers in the past with similar
issues, but this one won't go away so easily.