A formal specification of Java™ class loading

SIGPLAN Notices (ACM Special Interest Group on Programming Languages)

Volumn 35, Issue 10, 2000, Pages 325-336

  Qian, Zhenyu ^a   Goldberg, Allen ^a,b   Coglio, Alessandro ^a  

^a KESTREL INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b Shoulders Corporation   (United States)

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EID: 17944381748     PISSN: 03621340     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/354222.353193     Document Type: Article

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