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Abstract: A language is type-safe if the only operations that can be performed on data in the language are those sanctioned by the type of the data. Java is not type-safe, though it was intended to be. A Java object may read and modify fields (and invoke methods) private to another object. It may read and modify internal Java Virtual Machine (JVM) data-structures. It may invoke operations not even defined for that object, causing completely unpredictable results, including JVM crashes (core dumps). Thus... (Update)
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V. Saraswat. Java is not type-safe. Web pages at: http://www.research.att.com/~vj/main.html, 1997. http://citeseer.ist.psu.edu/saraswat97java.html More
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