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From: "Mark L. Fussell" <mark.fussell@chimu.com>
Subject: Re: ADA CORE TECHNOLOGIES ANNOUNCES GNAT-TO-JAVA SYSTEM
Date: 1997/09/15
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Stephen Leake wrote:
[SNIP]
> Can anyone recommend a _good_ intro to the JVM? I go to Borders, and
> have a hard time choosing from all the books promising to teach me Java
> in 10 days :).

Fortunately there are fewer books focused on the JVM.  The two main ones
are:
   Tim Lindholm & Frank Yellin, The Java Virtual Machine Specification
   Addison-Wesley, 1997.  ISBN 0-201-63452-X

   Jon Meyer & Troy Downing, Java Virtual Machine
   O'Reilly, 1997. ISBN 1-56592-194-1

Of these, I like the second slightly more but they can complement each
other on certain topics.  The Meyer book also includes a copy of Jasmin:
an Assembler for the JVM.

You can also browse/download an electronic copy of the Lindholm book
online at:
   http://www.javasoft.com/docs/books/vmspec/index.html

You can get a copy of Jasmin from:
   http://found.cs.nyu.edu/meyer/jasmin/

--Mark
mark.fussell@chimu.com

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