We are using a library that contains beans that are annotated with JAXB annotations. nothing in the way we use these classes depends on JAXB. in other words, we don't need JAXB and do not depend on...

I've the following scenario.. I am writing some tool that run user-entered query against the database and return the result.. The simplest way is to return the result as: List<String[]> but...

I'm playing around with BCEL. I'm not using it to generate bytecode, but instead I'm trying to inspect the structure of existing compiled classes. I need to be able to point to an arbitrary .class...

I am looking for a BCI (Bytecode Instrumentation) library for Java in C or C++, to use in a JVMTI agent. Best case scenario would be something like ASM or BCEL in pure C. The closest thing I hav...

I am writing a game engine/library in which I have an event dispatcher class which dispatches events by calling listener methods of "registered" event handler classes. One can register an event han...

Where is information such as if a local variable is "final" stored in Java bytecode? I know that for fields (global variables) and methods these are found in the access flag bits, but cannot seem t...

I need to generate new classes (via generation of java byte code) from existing classes. I will analyse the body (expressions) of the methods of a class. The expressions will determine what code I ...

I'm trying to switch the class loader at runtime: public class Test { public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception { final InjectingClassLoader classLoader = new InjectingClassLoader(...

I'm working on a simple build script that should get some constants from a java class file and use them as the version numbers in my file names. I use Eclipse and its own Ant, but put bcel-5.2.jar ...