Reengineering standard java runtime systems through dynamic bytecode instrumentation

SCAM 2007 - Proceedings 7th IEEE International Working Conference on Source Code Analysis and Manipulation

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 91-100

  Binder, Walter ^a   Hulaas, Jarle ^b   Moret, Philippe ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LUGANO   (Switzerland)

^b EPFL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Aspect oriented programming; Dynamic bytecode instrumentation; Dynamic metrics; Java; JVM; Profiling; Program transformations

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; JAVA PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE;

ASPECT-ORIENTED PROGRAMMING; DYNAMIC METRICS; JAVA; JVM; PROFILING; PROGRAM TRANSFORMATIONS;

INSTRUMENTS;

EID: 47749085837     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/SCAM.2007.20     Document Type: Conference Paper

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