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== Major Java compilers ==

[[As of 2006]], the following are major Java [[compiler]]s:

* [[Javac|javac]], included in [[Java Development Kit|JDK]] from [[Sun Microsystems]], open-sourced since the [[13 November]] [[2006]].

* [[GCJ]], a part of [[GNU Compiler Collection|gcc]] which compiles [[C (programming language)|C]], [[Fortran]], [[Pascal programming language|Pascal]] and other [[programming language]]s besides Java. It can also generate [[native code]] using the back-end of gcc.

* ECJ, the Eclipse Compiler for Java, is an open source [[incremental compiler]] used by the [[Eclipse (software)|Eclipse]] JDT.