Find out how source code is compiled for different programming languages and computer architectures, including the evolution from FORTRAN to CLR and JIT compilers.

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 ...

When translating Java source code, the compiler needs to know the definition of types it has not yet seen. This includes your application classes and core classes like java.lang.StringBuffer.

It may also refer to compiling the source code into the native language of a particular hardware platform, which makes it hardware dependent. See Java Virtual Machine and Java.

The first stable release (1.0) of the RoboVM ahead-of-time (AOT) compiler and runtime library for Java is now available. Developed by Swedish company Trillain Mobile, the open-source tool is designed ...

In an unexpected move, vendor decides to license open source Java under the GPL. First batch of source codes are also released.

The latest edition of the RoboVM ahead-of-time (AOT) compiler and runtime library for Java is now available, coinciding with the release of Apple's iOS 9 mobile OS and Xcode 7 IDE.

This is the Java compiler, and whether you use Maven, Gradle, the SpringSource IDE or Jenkins CI, it's this JDK tool that's used under the covers when Java source code gets compiled. But why does a ...

(Java source code tends to have fewer portability problems than C or C++ source.) We suggest that when you install a Java application, you should compile it to native code if it isn't already so ...

Source code must be converted into machine language by compilers or assemblers ahead of time or by interpreters at the time the program is run. See programming language and source code editor.