Lecturer: Boris Glavic
Semester: Spring 2019
java) which allows compiled java byte code to be executedjavac which compiles java source code to byte code
*java binary to start a virtual machine and execute code$java -cp <class_path> <class_name>
<class_path> - the class path is a colon-separated list of directories and jar files which contain the classes which are needed to run the main method of <class_name>java compiler to compile java source files (.java) into byte-code for the VM (class) files$javac -cp <class_path> -d <outdir> <source_files>
.class files are stored in a package directory structure in folder <outdir>.jar files.jar files are a convenient way to package your compiled java codejdb when discussing debugging