[Advanced-java] On the fly compile

[peter.humphries@xxxxxxxx (Peter Humphries)]

I believe Sun's compiler can't be used like this, because the publicly
visible API operates on files. Haven't tried it myself but I seem to
remember reading that Jikes can be used as an in-memory compiler.

Hope this helps,
Peter Humphries

Jyra Research Inc
www.jyra.com
Application Performance Monitoring


----- Original Message -----
From: "Valentin Tablan" <V.Tablan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "'Advanced Java'" <advanced-java@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, February 22, 2002 1:29 PM
Subject: Re: [Advanced-java] On the fly compile


>     I'm sorry if I'm missing something but I believe that the
> CompilingClassLoader makes an external call to javac in order to compile
the
> .java source and then reads the resulting .class file from the disk
creating
> a Class object out of its bytes. How exactly would you change this to use
> streams/readers?
>
> What I need is a 100% java way to access javac(or any other java
compiler),
> send it the source as a String/stream and get back the bytes for the
> compiled class without touching the disk at any time.
>
>     thanks,
>     Valentin
>
> > Having just read through that document, if you take a look at the source
> at the
> > end of the document it is reasonably easy to modify it to operate using
an
> > InputStream & and an OutputStream  (if necessary).
> >
> > Terry
> >
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