JavaC

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JavaC is the Java source to bytecode compiler.

Nb-Javac

There is a port of latest (as of today JDK 26+35) javac to run on any JDK8+ maintained by me at https://github.com/JaroslavTulach/nb-javac/

The page about nb-javac component contains details about such an autogenerated backport of JavaC from the latest JDK that can run on JDK8.

For years NetBeans editing capabilities were based on nb-javac - a manual fork of official OpenJDK javac codebase distributed under GPLwithClassPathException license. In 2021, it was decided the ApacheNetBeans project can distribute the nb-javac component as part of NetBeans binaries. The same javac can then be used on any JDK. That has significantly simplified distribution, bundling, testing of the NetBeans IDE on various JDK versions.

Thanks to TulachMoreDEW project, JavaC can run in a browser. But who cares!?