Glorified classes in the Java language

Question

Some classes in the standard Java API are treated slightly different from other classes. I\'m talking about those classes that couldn\'t be implemented without special support f

Answer 1

Most of those classes isn't really implemented with 'special' help from the compiler or JVM. Object does register some natives which poke around the internal JVM structures, but you can do that for your own classes as well. (I admit this is subject to semantics, "calls a native defined in the JVM" can be considered as special JVM support.)

What /is/ special is the behaviour of the 'new', and 'throw' instructions in how they initialise these internal structures.

Annotations and numbers are pretty much all-out freaky though.