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As an alternative to rewriting the same code, many software development environments provide a library tool that organizes frequently used code. Once developers finish debugging some reusable code, ...

A Java compiler is a program that takes the text file work of a developer and compiles it into a platform-independent Java file. Java compilers include the Java Programming Language Compiler (javac), ...

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 on ...