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+<body>
+
+<p>
+The Java™ programming language compiler API is a set of interfaces that describes the
+functions provided by a compiler. This API has three
+main objectives:
+</p>
+
+<ul>
+
+<li>Allow invocation of a compiler from a program using
+standardized interfaces.</li>
+
+<li>Provide interfaces enabling the compiler to report diagnostics in a
+structured way.</li>
+
+<li>Provide interfaces enabling clients of the compiler to override
+how file objects are found. "File objects" is a file
+abstraction.</li>
+
+</ul>
+
+</body>