A statement written in the source code of a program that lets the programmer instruct the compiler to perform a specific operation within the compilation phase. For example, the #include directive ...

A Java compiler is a program that takes the text file work of a developer and compiles it into a platform-independent Java file. Java compilers include the Java Programming Language Compiler (javac), ...

Software that converts a Java source program into bytecode (intermediate language) or to a just-in-time (JIT) compiler that converts ... Machine and Java. THIS DEFINITION IS FOR PERSONAL USE ...