The Managed Runtime Environment: Diving into the JVM with Kotlin

Preface

Introduction to the JVM

1. Managed Runtime Environment
2. Java Ecosystem
3. JVM
4. Class Loader, CLASSPATH and Interoperability
5. Central Repository and Dependency Management
6. Exercises

Type Basics

1. JVM Type Fundamentals
2. Primitive Types
3. Reference Types
4. Members
5. Nested Types
6. Kotlin to Java type system
7. Kotlin Class Members
8. Conversions and Casting
9. Primitive Numeric Conversions
10. Reference Type Casting
11. Boxing and Unboxing
12. Abstract and Base Types
13. Anonymous classes
14. Kotlin Object declarations
15. Kotlin Function types
16. Lambdas Translation in former Kotlin 1.x
17. Exercises

Reflection

1. Kotlin Reflection
2. A Simple Logger Using Kotlin Reflection
3. Java Reflection
4. Checking Type Compatibility
5. NaiveMapper: automatic object to object mapper
6. NaiveMapper Motivation
7. NaiveMapper Implementation
8. Annotations
9. Reflection of generic types
10. Reflection Overhead and the Enhancement of NaiveMapper
11. Reflection Overhead
12. Enhancing the NaiveMapper
13. Exercises

Performance testing and Microbenchmarking

1. Performance Measurement Pitfalls
2. JMH
3. Exercises

Bytecode and the Just-in-time Compiler

1. Evaluation Stack
2. Constant Pool and Descriptors
3. Managing Instances and Members

Metaprogramming

1. Introduction
2. Class-File API
3. Dynamic Mapper
4. Cojen Maker
5. Cojen Maker Features
6. Cojen Maker Examples
7. Dynamic Mapper with Cojen Maker

Sequences, Generators and Suspending functions

1. Sequence Alternatives
2. Operation names
3. Composability: method chaining versus nested functions
4. Eager versus lazy evaluation
5. Extensibility
6. Access approach: pull versus push
7. Generators and yield pattern
8. Suspend functions
9. Deconstructing yield and generators
10. Translating a Suspend Function into a State Machine
11. sequence builder
12. Exercises

Garbage Collection and Cleanup Actions

1. The Managed Heap
2. Garbage Collection
3. Types Requiring Special Cleanup
4. Using closeable types
5. Finalization and Cleaners