Apache Commons BCEL-The Byte Code Engineering Library

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本文深入探讨了Java编程语言及其相关执行环境Java虚拟机(JVM)的扩展和改进，包括参数化类型添加、面向切面编程实现、复杂静态分析及运行时性能优化。通过将Java类编译为通用二进制类文件(bytecode)，可以方便地通过修改字节码而非重新编写编译器或更改JVM来实施这些改进。介绍了一种帮助开发者方便地实现其转换的API——BCEL API，它是进行静态分析和动态创建或转换Java类文件的强大工具集。

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Extensions and improvements of the programming language Java and its related execution environment (Java Virtual Machine, JVM) are the subject of a large number of research projects and proposals. There are projects, for instance, to add parameterized types to Java, to implement Aspect-Oriented Programming, to perform sophisticated static analysis, and to improve the run-time performance.

Since Java classes are compiled into portable binary class files (called byte code), it is the most convenient and platform-independent way to implement these improvements not by writing a new compiler or changing the JVM, but by transforming the byte code. These transformations can either be performed after compile-time, or at load-time. Many programmers are doing this by implementing their own specialized byte code manipulation tools, which are, however, restricted in the range of their re-usability.

To deal with the necessary class file transformations, we introduce an API that helps developers to conveniently implement their transformations.

The BCEL API (Byte Code Engineering Library), formerly known as JavaClass, is a toolkit for the static analysis and dynamic creation or transformation of Java class files. It enables developers to implement the desired features on a high level of abstraction without handling all the internal details of the Java class file format and thus re-inventing the wheel every time.