Everything about Java compiler

🧭 Start here: a 6-step reading path

1. Read the overview: Java compilerA 5-minute orientation
2. Skim a recent paper: Compiler-assisted energy reduction of java real-time programsInfluential work since 2022
3. Pick up a classic book: Compiler construction using Java, JavaCC, and YaccThe most-reprinted book on the subject
4. Read the landmark paper: A machine-checked model for a Java-like language, virtual machine, and compilerCited 167 times
5. Go sideways: Java Development KitA closely related topic
6. Go sideways: Java virtual machineA closely related topic

🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)

• A machine-checked model for a Java-like language, virtual machine, and compiler

  Gerwin Klein, Tobias Nipkow · 2006 · ACM Transactions on Programming Languages and Systems · 167 citations

• Overview of the IBM Java Just-in-Time Compiler

  T. Suganuma, T. Ogasawara, M. Takeuchi · 2000 · IBM Systems Journal · 158 citations

• Design of the Java HotSpot™ client compiler for Java 6

  Thomas Kotzmann, Christian Wimmer, Hanspeter Mössenböck · 2008 · ACM Transactions on Architecture and Code Optimization · 124 citations

• The jastadd extensible java compiler

  Torbjörn Ekman, Görel Hedin · 2007 · ACM SIGPLAN Notices · 45 citations

• Design and evaluation of dynamic optimizations for a Java just-in-time compiler

  Toshio Suganuma, Toshiaki Yasue, Motohiro Kawahito · 2005 · ACM Transactions on Programming Languages and Systems · 37 citations

• A certifying compiler for Java

  Christopher Colby, Peter Lee, George C. Necula · 2000 · ACM SIGPLAN Notices · 32 citations

• javar: A prototype Java restructuring compiler

  Aart J. C. Bik, Juan E. Villacis, Dennis B. Gannon · 1997 · Concurrency: Practice and Experience · 23 citations

• Marmot: an optimizing compiler for Java

  Robert Fitzgerald, Todd B. Knoblock, Erik Ruf · 2000 · Software: Practice and Experience · 19 citations

🆕 Influential since 2022

• Compiler-assisted energy reduction of java real-time programs

  Manish Tewary, Zoran Salcic, Morteza Biglari-Abhari · 2022 · Microprocessors and Microsystems · 3 citations

• A Java Compiler Plugin for Type-Safe Inferences in Generics

  Neha Kumari, Rajeev Kumar · 2025 · JUCS - Journal of Universal Computer Science · 0 citations

• Implementasi Compiler Java Plugin Moodle untuk Melacak PjBL untuk Meningkatkan Kompetensi Pemrograman Berorientasi Obyek

  Ramdhan Bachtiar Ibrahim Ramdhan Bachtiar Ibrahim, Bambang Sujatmiko · 2025 · IT-Edu : Jurnal Information Technology and Education · 0 citations

• Implementasi Compiler Java Plugin Moodle untuk Melacak PjBL untuk Meningkatkan Kompetensi Pemrograman Berorientasi Obyek

  Ramdhan Bachtiar Ibrahim Ramdhan Bachtiar Ibrahim, Bambang Sujatmiko · 2025 · IT-Edu : Jurnal Information Technology and Education · 0 citations

📚 Books worth reading

• Compiler construction using Java, JavaCC, and YaccAnthony J. Dos Reis · 2011
• Foundational JavaDavid Parsons · 2012
• Introduction To Compiler Construction In A Java WorldBill Campbell · 2012
• Writing compilers and interpretersRonald Mak · 2008
• Modern compiler implementation in JavaAndrew W. Appel · 1997
• Programming language processors in JavaDavid A. Watt, Deryck F. Brown · 2000
• Guide to JavaJames T. Streib · 2014
• 📕Modern Compiler Implementation in JavaAndrew W. Appel · 1997

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