ABSTRACT
Developers are increasingly turning to managed languages and run-time systems for the many virtues they offer, from the increased security they bestow to code to the flexibility they provide by abstracting away from operating system and architecture. The benefits of managed code are widely accepted [Butters, 2007]. Because many services are provided by the virtual machine, programmers have less code to write. Code is safer if it is type-safe and if the run-time system verifies code as it is loaded, checks for resource access violations and the bounds of arrays and other collections, and manages memory automatically. Deployment costs are lower since it is easier to deploy applications to different platforms, even if the mantra ‘write once, run anywhere’ is over-optimistic. Consequently, programmers can spend a greater proportion of development time on the logic of their application.
