Formal Syntax and Semantics of Java

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Alves-Foss, Jim (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, 1999.
• Edition: 1st ed. 1999.
• Series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 1523
• Subjects: Programming languages (Electronic computers).; Computer logic.; Software engineering.; Programming Languages, Compilers, Interpreters.; Logics and Meanings of Programs.; Software Engineering.

Java, undoubtedly, has its roots in embedded systems and the Web. Nevertheless, it is a fully functional high-level programming language that can provide users with a wide range of functionality and versatility. This thoroughly cross-reviewed state-of-the-art survey is devoted to the study of the sy...

Table of Contents:

• Formal Grammar for Java
• Formal Grammar for Java
• Type Soundness
• Describing the Semantics of Java and Proving Type Soundness
• Proving Java Type Soundness
• Machine-Checking the Java Specification: Proving Type-Safety
• Semantic Approaches
• An Event-Based Structural Operational Semantics of Multi-threaded Java
• Dynamic Denotational Semantics of Java
• A Programmer's Reduction Semantics for Classes and Mixins
• A Formal Specification of Java? Virtual Machine Instructions for Objects, Methods and Subroutines
• The Operational Semantics of a Java Secure Processor
• A Programmer Friendly Modular Definition of the Semantics of Java.