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Oracle's Java 7 release introduced a new invokedynamic bytecode instruction to the Java Virtual Machine (JVM) and a new java.lang.invoke API package to the standard class library. This post introduces you to this instruction and API.

The What and How of invokedynamic

Q: What is invokedynamic?

A:invokedynamic is a bytecode instruction that facilitates the implementation of dynamic languages (for the JVM) through dynamic method invocation. This instruction is described in the Java SE 7 Edition of the JVM Specification.

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