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A Java compiler is a compiler for the programming language Java. The most common form of output from a Java compiler is Java class files containing platform-neutral Java bytecode,^[1] but there are also compilers that output optimized native machine code for a particular hardware/operating system combination, most notably the now discontinued GNU Compiler for Java.^[2]

Most Java-to-bytecode compilers do virtually no optimization, leaving this until run time to be done by the Java virtual machine (JVM).^{[citation needed]}

The JVM loads the class files and either interprets the bytecode or just-in-time compiles it to machine code and then possibly optimizes it using dynamic compilation.

A standard on how to interact with Java compilers programmatically was specified in JSR 199.^[3]

Sun's OpenJDK javac page
Stephan Diehl, "A Formal Introduction to the Compilation of Java", Software - Practice and Experience, Vol. 28(3), pages 297-327, March 1998.

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 * [http://openjdk.java.net/groups/compiler/ Sun's OpenJDK javac page]
 * Stephan Diehl, [http://people.cis.ksu.edu/~hatcliff/605/XC/java-comp.pdf.gz "A Formal Introduction to the Compilation of Java"], ''Software - Practice and Experience'', Vol. '''28'''(3), pages 297-327, March 1998.
-* [https://www.interviewbit.com/online-java-compiler/ Interviewbit Java Compiler]
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