See programming language and source code editor. Most programmers write in high-level languages such as C/C++, Java and Python. However, programs are also occasionally written in assembly language ...

The main purpose of a Java compiler (or a compiler in any programming language) is to translate the high-level Java source code into a machine code file consisting of machine-readable 0s and 1s, and ...

When a Java application's source code is compiled, it is compiled into bytecode. Bytecode is an intermediary between Java source code and low-level machine code. When the java utility is invoked, a ...

It may also refer to compiling the source code into the native language of a particular hardware platform, which makes it hardware dependent. See Java Virtual Machine and Java. THIS DEFINITION IS ...