Another blog entry in my current Java 7 series. This time it's dealing with
invokedynamic, a new bytecode instruction on the JVM for method invocation. The
invokedynamic instruction allows dynamic linkage between a call site and the receiver of the call. That means you can link the class that is performing a method call to the class (and method) that is receiving the call
at run-time. All the other JVM bytecode instructions for method invocation, like
invokevirtual, hard-wire the target type information into your compilation, i.e. into your class file. Let's look at an example.
