Understanding the performance behaviour of Java Virtual Machines is important to Java systems developers and to applications developers. We review a range of Java benchmark programs , including those collected by the Java Grande Forum as useful performance indicators for large-scale scientiic applications, or \Java Grande applications". We systematically analyse these benchmarks on a collection...

Java2OWL is a Java software library for synchronising Java class hierarchies with OWL concept hierarchies. With a few extra annotations in Java class files, the Java2OWL library can automatically map Java class hierarchies to OWL ontologies. The instances of these Java classes are automatically mapped to OWL individuals and vice versa. OWL reasoners can be used as query processors to retrieve i...

One of the goals of the designers of the Java programming language was that multithreaded programs written in Java would have consistent and well-defined behavior. This would allow Java programmers to understand how their programs might behave; it would also allow Java platform architects to develop their platforms in a flexible and efficient way, while still ensuring that Java programs ran on ...

Our experimental compiler translates Java to PLT Scheme; it enables the use of Java libraries within Scheme programs, and it makes our Scheme programming tools available when programming with Java. With our system, a programmer can extend and use classes from either language, and Java programmers can employ other Scheme data by placing it in a class using the Java native interface. PLT Scheme’s...

This paper presents a novel approach to construct Java programs automatically from the input functional program specifications on natural numbers from the constructive proofs of the input specifications using an inductive theorem prover called Poiti′n. The construction of a Java program from the input functional program specification involves two phases. The theorem prover is used to construct ...

The Java trademark encompasses the Java Virtual Machine (JVM), the Java language itself, and a large continuously growing class library. Beyond the development of applets in the context of the World Wide Web, more and more people use Java for large scaled standalone applications. This user group points out the performance disadvantage of the Java environment in comparison to sophisticated C/C++...

This thesis presents the design, implementation, and evaluation of Flow Java, a programming language for the implementation of concurrent programs. Flow Java adds powerful programming abstractions for automatic synchronization of concurrent programs to Java. The abstractions added are single assignment variables (logic variables) and futures (read-only views of logic variables). The added abstr...

This paper examines the feasibility of Java as a development platform for high performance 3D graphics applications. With the ubiquity of java and its ease of development it must be considered as a potential development platform. However, traditionally java has been considered too slow for real 3D graphics. With recent advances in Java performance, the implementation of the OpenGL architecture ...

This paper investigates the possibility of using Java as a language for Digital Signal Processing. We compare the performance of the Fast Fourier Transform using Java interpreters, compilers, and native execution. To characterize the Java language as a platform for signal processing, we have implemented a traditional FFT algorithm in both C and Java and compared their relative performance. Addi...