Analysis of the Java Class File Format
Denis N. Antonioli, Markus Pilz · 1998
this paper is to gather statistics on the Java class files, which serve in Java both as an object file for the Java Virtual Machine and as an intermediate program representation for cross-platform delivery. Such statistics are of interests to both the developers of Java tools and the designers of intermediate languages. The goal of this work is to study the properties of the Java class file format and particularly to answer these questions: