Module jdk.compiler


module jdk.compiler
Defines the implementation of the system Java compiler and its command line equivalent, javac.

The com.sun.source.* packages provide the Compiler Tree API: an API for accessing the abstract trees (ASTs) representing Java source code and documentation comments, used by javac, javadoc and related tools.

javac

This module provides the equivalent of command-line access to javac via the ToolProvider and Tool service provider interfaces (SPIs), and more flexible access via the JavaCompiler SPI.

Instances of the tools can be obtained by calling ToolProvider.findFirst or the service loader with the name "javac".

In addition, instances of JavaCompiler.CompilationTask obtained from JavaCompiler can be downcast to JavacTask for access to lower level aspects of javac, such as the Abstract Syntax Tree (AST).

This module uses the FileSystemProvider API to locate file system providers. In particular, this means that a jar file system provider, such as that in the jdk.zipfs module, must be available if the compiler is to be able to read JAR files.

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Tool Guides:
javac
Since:
9