I'm really confused. Please someone help to give a clear answer of which of the following contain source code and byte code in java?
Student.class
Student
Student.java
Student.exe
Student.java is the Java source code file, a text file
Student.class is the bytecode compiled from it, a binary file
Student.exe is a Windows executable (also binary, but not something you usually get from Java)
Student is not a file at all, just an abstract concept (a Java class, whose full name would be something like com.vicheanak.myapp.Student).
You may also encounter Student.jar which is an archive of all the class files and other resources that make up the application or library.
Your source code would be Student.java. Bytecode would be Student.class. Source code becomes byte code when you compile it (eg: with javac). Student would be your class name. I'm not sure about Student.exe, it would be your bytecode if you used C/C++ on Windows.
Student.class is Java bytecode.
Student has no meaning - it is probably not a file.
Student.java has java source code.
Student.exe has assembler bytecode.
Student.class is Java bytecode.
Student.java has java source code
Student not a file at all,
Student.exe is a Windows executable file
Student.class is byte code for the java virtual machine. It will execute this directly (or just in time compile it into assembly, which is instructions that the CPU reads directly).
Student is the name of your class, I guess.
Student.java is the source code for your class. It will be compiled into Student.class.
Student.exe is an executable file. It'll be coded to start up the java virtual machine, which will execute the byte code in Student.class (which will most likely be embedded inside it).
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I have a pile of .java files. They all have the same class name public MyClass. They all have a main method. They all may or may not have a package declaration at top, and I do not know ahead of time.
I am trying to write a script to compile and run these java programs. This is easy for the files without the package declaration... I just do some cp operations to setup, javac MyClass.java and java MyClass, then rm to teardown. However, the files with the package declaration require special attention. I have a few options that occur to me, including deleting the package lines, or attempting to read the package lines so that I know what the resulting directory structure should be. Both of these require me to go parsing through the .java files, which makes me sad.
Is there a way to compile and run these files without having to parse the .java files? Something like:
javac --ignore_package_structure MyClass.java
would be ideal, but a quick look at the javac man pages suggests that such a thing doesn't exist.
If we can assume that each student submits a single source file named HelloWorld.java, then we can use the "Launch Single-File Source-Code Programs" feature added by JEP 330 in Java 11:
java HelloWorld.java
We don't run javac first, we don't get a .class file (no cleanup needed), and any package declaration is handled automatically.
Remember, the students are still allowed to use many classes, they just all have to be submitted to you in a single source file.
The name of the class doesn't even matter. The first class in the source file is executed.
There isn't any easy way to do this. You could use regex though, and replace all imports with this simple java regex:
"package \w+;"g
Simply stated, you create a Java program to replace all the package names.
How to replace files: Find and replace words/lines in a file
I just started Java today and I am getting a NoClassDefFoundError when I run my code:
class Example {
public static final String greeting = "Hi there";
public static void main(String[] args) {
System.out.format("%s", Example.greeting);
}
}
Above is the contents of my example.java code. This code compiles fine in the Eclipse execution, but when I try to run example.java by itself, it fails. Eclipse also created some .class file when I ran this program, but that doesn't make much sense as to why it would fail if I ran the .java by itself in a different directory as all the information of the class Example is found in the .java file itself.
Does Java need the .class file to compile and run despite having the class itself defined in the program and why? I also built the .java file through terminal and it worked fine
Compilation and execution of a Java program is two step process:
During compilation phase Java compiler compiles the source code and generates bytecode. This intermediate bytecode is saved in form of a .class file.
In second phase, Java virtual machine (JVM) also called Java interpreter takes the .class as input and generates output by executing the bytecode.
So yes .class file is essential for execution of the code. .java file is text that you write, but not what the machine can interpret.
Here is the flow diagram of what happens:
To look at it in more depth:
When your Java project builds, it translates the source code (contained in *.java source files) to Java bytecode (most often contained in *.class files). This takes your high-level code one step closer to machine code, but not quite there yet. This bytecode is a collection of compact instructions; easier for a machine to interpret, but less readable.
When you run a Java application on your computer, cellphone, or any other Java-enabled platform, you essentially pass this Java bytecode to the Java Virtual Machine. The interpreter in the Java Virtual Machine usually starts compiling the entire bytecode at runtime, following the principles of so-called just-in-time compilation. This makes for the typical, albeit often slight delay when opening a Java application, but generally enhances the program performance compared to interpreted compilation.
Does Java need the .class file to compile and run despite having the class itself defined in the program and why
The compiled output of a java file (class) is .class file. It contains the bytecode of the program which is run by the JVM. So .class files are required to run the program.
I also built the .java file through terminal and it worked fine
Even through the terminal, when you compile the .java file (class). It creates the .class for each class declared in the .java file. Then you execute the class which contains the main method. The main method is the entry point for the JVM.
For example:
File name: example.java
Compile code: javac example.java
Output is .class file: Example.class. Because name of the class is Example.
Run the program: java Example
Error in your code. Looks like this has been updated in the question.
System.out.format("%s", Student.greeting);
Name of the class is Example not Student. it should be:
System.out.format("%s", Example.greeting);
I am a little bit confused...
I know that classes are loaded by the class loader only when they are needed,that is when we are trying to use static variables or when we are creating instance of that class.Thus if we have for e.g. 3 classes in our program and we are going to use only one,then only that particular class will be loaded and rest are not,but when we run the java compiler,it will create 3 .class files,I know these 3 .class files are byte code files,but then what is this byte code and what is the difference between loading a class and generating bytecode of a class?Where is the use of this byte code?If we are not going to use a particular class,then what is the need of generating a bytecode for that class?
Java is a compiled language. The purpose of compiling into bytecode is to allow the code to run on the JVM on any platform. Platform independence is a feature built into java.
Furthermore, you don't have to compile all three class files unless they have inter-dependencies. You can specify which specific files to compile in the console javac command. If you are using an IDE, check your settings or exclude the undesired class from the project.
Loading a class happens at runtime, when you're preparing to invoke whatever properties the class has.
Generating the bytecode of a class happens at compile time. This allows the code to be run on the virtual machine.
Java is a compiled language, and it runs on top of the Java Virtual Machine. Compiling bytecode translates whatever higher level code (be it Java, Scala, or Clojure) into machine-independent instructions to be read by the JVM. This is why that your (backend-specific) program will generally run without modification on Linux, Windows, and Mac OS X.
The Java language will compile any classes that have dependencies on each other within the path, so if you have a class but it is not used, chances are it will not be compiled. There may be tools that override that, so if you find yourself not using a class, then remove the class so that unnecessary bytecode is not generated.
Difference between languages like C++ and java is byte code. C++ binaries(compiled,assembled,linked) will have the machine(op) codes for the OS it got compiled for. In the case of java the byte code is the target for JVM. Byte code will have the opcodes for JVM. JVM in turn will initiate the respective os calls. So bytecode and JVM makes java programs independent of os.
Reg loading class loading,it happens when the program needs it. This is at runtime. JIT will do the second compilation of class when needed.
When we compile .java we get .class file.
The .class file is called byte code.
The Byte code in Java is nothing but a .class file which is not understandable by humans i.e (00110011). These .class files are generated only after the compilation of .java.
These .class file can be used to run on any platform.
Why don't we give the filename.class file after java command, instead of only filename?
Suppose we want to compile the test.java program, then we run javac test.java. It is ok!
After that it will produce test.class file but to run the program we run java test instead of java test.class. What is the reason for this?
Because you are not describing a file to run. You are telling Java which class contains the main method - and the class' name is (in your case) filename, not filename.class.
The fact that the bytecode is almost always contained in files on the filesystem is an implementation detail. The classpath you pass to the java command tells it where to look for classes, and then the main class argument tells it which class to use.
(It's different for javac, because this program specifically does take source files and compiles them into bytecode.)
You don't pass a file name to the java command either. You pass it a fully qualified class name. Something like com.yourcompany.yourapp.Main. Java then finds the .class file for this class name, by looking into all the directories and jar files in the classpath.
It's an implementation detail. The Java class loader system can extended by custom code to make it behave differently. For example, some companies have written encrypted class loaders that are capable of decrypting and loading encrypted class files on the fly. You could hypothetically create a similar system that bundles a bunch of classes together into something resembling a .NET assembly instead of a Jar file (which is really just a zip file).
when you execute "java test.class"
You get either
Could not find or load main class test.class
or
Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: test/class
This is because "java" in "java test.class" is jvm. It looks for main method in class called "class" instead of "test". Dot in "java test.class" has a significant meaning. So how jvm looks at "java test.class", in a package called "test" it looks for a java class named "class".
*test.class*
*test* - package name
*class* - java filename
Hope this helps !!
Just to summarise everything to the details,
when one does
java filename.java
s/he actually runs the java compiler and converts the code to instructions that a JVM understands.
Now when one runs
javac main_file
s/he invokes the JVM to run the entire project whose main method is found in the class main_file
This main_file is actually the fully qualified name of the class i.e. if I have a project ProjectX and this main class is in package src.java.hello.main,
You should run the command
java src.java.hello.main.main_file
Hence this . is actually a reserved thing at JVM end and we cannot give .class as part of the argument to the java command.
The Javac compiler creates file called Xyz.class (Here Xyz is FileName)
that contains the byte version of the program
Java Bytecode is nothing but intermediate Representation of Your Program that contains instruction the Java interpreter will execute.
thus, the output of javac is not code that can be directly executed
in short, javac keyword is used for the Compile the Java program
if we Use .class with javac (Already compiled File .class File) then How can compile already compile file
so Valid Syntax is:
Javac Xyz.java (Compile the Java Program)
java Xyz (Run the Java Program)
Can i write bytecode inside a method of a class so that the compiler bypasses that part since it is already compiled. Something similar to writing assembly programs in C language using "asm"...
I think you mean Java. If that's the case:
Short answer: no.
Long answer:
There is nothing like asm { ... } in Java. But you could (not very clever in most situations) write a .class file (or have bytecode in textual representation and then assemble it in Java to a .class file) from Java and dynamically load and execute it.