Ask YC: What is a good book about the JVM?

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I'm looking to learn some bottom-up Java - any suggestions?

I have not read these personally, but worth a look:

http://www.amazon.com/Covert-Java-Techniques-Decompiling-Eng...

http://www.amazon.com/Decompiling-Java-Godfrey-Nolan/dp/1590...

Venners book has free chapters online (be careful this is pretty old):

http://www.artima.com/insidejvm/ed2/index.html

The (quasi-?) official specs, "The Java Virtual Machine Specification" and "The Java Language Specification" are about as bottom-up, comprehensive, and dry/matter-of-fact as possible.

Online:

http://java.sun.com/docs/books/jvms/

http://java.sun.com/docs/books/jls/

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