OpenJDK proposal would replace ASM with an up-to-date and performant API for parsing, generating, and transforming Java class files.

Generally, Java compilers are run and pointed to a programmer's code in a text file to produce a class file for use by the JVM on different platforms. Jikes, for example, is an open source compiler ...

My examples have been written and built in Java SE 7, but I avoid using Java SE 7’s Files class and so don’t need to fully scope Guava’s same-named class. File Creation ...

Since I have done most of my coding for classes (and almost exclusively in Java), I have always just run my programs through the compiler and never had to worry about actually setting it up to run ...

Why, of course, by virtually starting up the Java class and pushing the buttons, so to speak. You test a Java class by calling methods on it from another Java class. The following Java source file is ...

well, apparently, if i make an empty .java file of the same name, compile it once, and then replace the .class file with the one i want.<BR><BR>hopefully there is some more elegant way to do it ...