Java compilers include the Java Programming Language Compiler (javac), the GNU Compiler for Java (GCJ), the Eclipse Compiler for Java (ECJ), and Jikes. Programmers typically write language statements ...

A team of several dozen developers led by Oracle Labs’ Thomas Wuerthinger has spent seven years honing three ideas: What if you wrote a compiler in Java, and what if it could run any program ...

Generics in the Java Collections Framework Generics are integrated into Java Collections to provide compile-time type checking and to eliminate the need for explicit type casting.

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