Venus: A visual java virtual machine framework

Abstract

visualization is applied in monitoring Java Virtual Machine (JVM) running process, and provides a Java programmer with intuitive observation to the data and their relations. To achieve this, we propose a JVM framework with feature of visualization, namely Venus. Our work includes two modeling tasks: the type system visual area modeling and runtime system visual area modeling. In type system visual area modeling, we model it by building the GUI component of type system, refining the load, link, preparation and initialization processes. In runtime system visual area modeling, we model it by building the GUI component of runtime system and refining the processes of three different kinds of instruction execution. ©2009 IEEE.