You can identify the external file for a snippet using either a class name using the class attribute, for a Java source file, or by a file name, using the file attribute.

IntroductiontoProgrammingUsingJavais a free introductory computer programming textbook that uses Java as the language of instruction. It is suitable for use in an introductory programming course and …

An executable Java program generated from a source code is called Java bytecode, and has the file name extension .class. To generate a Java program from a source code, the machine needs an …

A file containing Java source code is considered a compilation unit. Such a compilation unit contains a set of classes and, optionally, a package definition to group related classes together. Classes contain …

The goal of the ASM library is to generate, transform and analyze compiled Java classes, represented as byte arrays (as they are stored on disk and loaded in the Java Virtual Machine).

In the following example from Oracle, the code is written in Java so that it is easier to read, but the JRockit JVM is performing the optimizations on the bytecode instructions

This article presents Spoon, a framework for the analysis and transformation of Java source code. Spoon enables Java developers to write a large range of domain-specific analyses and …