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 ...

Recently, though, a friend asked me to write a simple piece of software in Java, which I did, and I sent him a folder with all the relevant files.<BR><BR>To use the program, one of the classes ...

The business logic usually resides in JAR files containing libraries of Java class files. People often think of testing as trying out a product. With a car, it's easy: start the ignition and drive.

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 ...