August 2024
Intermediate to advanced
988 pages
24h 37m
English
Content preview from Core Java, Volume II: Advanced Features, 13th Edition
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Chapter 8 ▪ Compiling and Scripting
This chapter introduces two techniques for processing code. You can use the compiler API when you want to compile Java code inside your application. The scripting API lets you invoke code in a scripting language such as JavaScript or Groovy.
8.1. The Compiler API
There are quite a few tools that need to compile Java code. Obviously, development environments and programs that teach Java programming are among them, as well as testing and build automation tools. Another example is the processing of Jakarta Server Pages—web pages with embedded Java statements.
8.1.1. Invoking the Compiler
It is very easy to invoke the compiler. Here is a sample call:
JavaCompiler compiler = ToolProvider.getSystemJavaCompiler(); ...