I'm just curious how the JDK reads the contents of the JCreator Editor Environment...Meaning..
int length=0;
..is read by the compiler as a integer variable length with 0..If
ever, is there a way for a programmer to throw a
string equation to the compiler....
string sample = "int length=0";
and process it the same way as it is read in a JCreator Environment..?
I imagine that JCreator is written in C/C++. It therefore runs a system call to the JDK, like : system("javac theFile.java"); javac then compiles the whole file at a time. (Probably launches a new thread, in linux it would be fork() or clone(), but in windows, I dont know.
As far as running just one line of code through the java compiler, I am not sure if you can do it. You can write it to a temporary java file and the use: Runtime.getRuntime().exec("javac temp.java");
Note that exec returns a process, you can then retrieve the different streams (input/output/error), to see there result of the compilation.
Hope it helps.
Thanks
Cardwell