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

A class file represents a Java class in its compiled state. A class file contains the bytecode representation of program instructions originally coded as Java source code.

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 ...

Guava’s Files class includes a couple overloaded write methods for easily writing content to a file. The next code sample demonstrates using Files.write(byte[],File). Demonstrating ...

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 ...

A Java compiler is a program that takes the text file work of a developer and compiles it into a platform-independent Java file. Java compilers include the Java Programming Language Compiler (javac), ...