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-[ClassFile]s are the ByteCode form of [Java]. They are platform independant and one of the mani
reasons for the success of the Java language. They are normally distributed in JarFile, which is a specialisation of a [zip(1)] file.
+[ClassFile]s are the ByteCode form of [Java]. They are platform independant and one of the main
reasons for the success of the Java language. They are normally distributed in JarFile, which is a specialisation of a [zip(1)] file.
The ClassFile is built around a Constant Pool, which is rather like a symbol table in a [Fortran] library.
A Number of key limitations are introduced into Java systems by the [ClassFile] format, including:
