A Java compiler takes a text file and compiles it into a platform-independent Java file, meaning the compiled code can run on any OS. Learn how it works.

A team of several dozen developers led by Oracle Labs’ Thomas Wuerthinger has spent seven years honing three ideas: What if you wrote a compiler in Java, and what if it could run any program ...

Find out how source code is compiled for different programming languages and computer architectures, including the evolution from FORTRAN to CLR and JIT compilers.