Here's something that I've just noticed:  Try this on a 1.5 Java:
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import java.lang.reflect.Method;
public class Test

I'm rather new to Java (6 months - is that new?) so a few things I'm
still rather unsure with. I'd be writing a program that would run in
the background, so I'd like to keep it low in priority. Here's the part
I'm confused: Does setting the thread's priority affect the JVM or the

Dear JVMers,
I'd like to give a few presentations/seminars at work about the Java
Virtual Machine. The idea is to present the JVM architecture in some
depth to the engineering staff and discuss how our particular JVM (a

There is any posibility (via JVMDI/JVMTI, JDI or whatever) to access
the VM stack operands?
I'd like to be able to access the operands of each arithmetic(and not
only) instruction that is running on the VM.