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        <meta name="author" content="Jonathan Gibbons">
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        <title>JavaCompiler</title>
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        <h3>com.sun.tools.javac.main.JavaCompiler</h3>
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        <p>
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            <code>JavaCompiler</code> provides (and enforces) a use-once method to compile a list of source files. 
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            It invokes the various phases of the compiler to cause those source files to be compiled.
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        <ul>
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            <li>All the files given on the command line are parsed, to build a
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                list of parse trees. Lexing and parsing are done with
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                <a href="../../src/share/classes/com/sun/tools/javac/parser/Scanner.java" class=code>Scanner</a>    and
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                <a href="../../src/share/classes/com/sun/tools/javac/parser/Parser.java" class=code>Parser</a>.
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                Lexical and syntax errors will be detected here.
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                <p class=note>
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                    Note: Additional files may be parsed later, if they are found on the class/source path, and if they are newer than their matching class file.
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            <li>For each of the parse trees, their symbols are "entered", using
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                <a href="../../src/share/classes/com/sun/tools/javac/comp/Enter.java" class=code>Enter</a>.  This will also set up a "to do" list of additional work to be done to compile those parse trees.
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                <i>(<a href="Enter.html">more...</a>)</i>
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            </li>
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            <li>If source code or stub code will be generated, a list is made
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                (in rootClasses) of all the top level classes defined in the parse trees. This will be used later, to check whether a class being processed was directly provided on the command line or not.
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            <li>Then, for as long as there is work on the "to do" list,
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                <code>JavaCompiler</code> processes entries from the "to do" list.
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                In so doing, the compiler might find additional classes that need to be
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                processed, which may result in additional entries being added to the
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                "to do" list. <i>(<a href="ToDo.html">more...</a>)</i>
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            </li>
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            <li>Print final messages.</li>
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            <li>Return a list of class symbols, perhaps just those from
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                final lower (may not include top level classes)
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