Java: towards JVM integrity by default
This article first appeared in Programmez! Hors série #16 (in french only). The Java Virtual Machine (JVM) is an execution environment that enables programs written in Java (or other languages compiled into Java bytecode) to run on different operating systems and hardware architectures. From the begining, the JVM was designed to be dynamic: it can execute code not present at compile time by code hot-loading. It can also call native libraries, and supports numerous monitoring features. Java code can also…