Identifying Reference Objects by Hierarchical Clustering in Java Environment

TL;DR

This paper proposes a method to identify reference objects in Java programs by applying hierarchical clustering to analyze reference and execution stacks, aiding in understanding object references.

Contribution

It introduces a novel approach using hierarchical clustering to identify reference objects in Java, leveraging reference and execution stacks.

Findings

Effective identification of reference objects in Java environments

Hierarchical clustering improves object reference analysis

Potential application in debugging and program comprehension

Abstract

Recently Java programming environment has become so popular. Java programming language is a language that is designed to be portable enough to be executed in wide range of computers ranging from cell phones to supercomputers. Computer programs written in Java are compiled into Java Byte code instructions that are suitable for execution by a Java Virtual Machine implementation. Java virtual Machine is commonly implemented in software by means of an interpreter for the Java Virtual Machine instruction set. As an object oriented language, Java utilizes the concept of objects. Our idea is to identify the candidate objects' references in a Java environment through hierarchical cluster analysis using reference stack and execution stack.