You don't have to get all talmudic about it, you can just open the JVM spec to almost any page. https://docs.oracle.com/javase/specs/jvms/se8/html/jvms-6.html#

You don't have to get all talmudic about it, you can just open the JVM spec to almost any page. https://docs.oracle.com/javase/specs/jvms/se8/html/jvms-6.html#jvms-6.5.invokevirtual https://docs.oracle.com/javase/specs/jvms/se8/html/jvms-6.ht... The semantics of Java classes 'in the programming sense' are largely specified and implemented in the JVM.