OpenJDK proposal would replace ASM with an up-to-date and performant API for parsing, generating, and transforming Java class files.

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 ...

JEP 238: Multi-Release JAR Files extends the JAR file format to allow multiple, Java-release-specific versions of class/resource files to coexist in the same archive. This upgrade makes it easier ...

As we commonly know that the basic loophole in Java is that it can be reengineered from class file to source code, the class file consist of byte codes which is interpreted by Java Virtual Machine ...

Since I have done most of my coding for classes (and almost exclusively in Java), I have always just run my programs through the compiler and never had to worry about actually setting it up to run ...