Java - Dynamic Compilation without JDK

Question

im aware that j2se 6 has introduced the JavaCompiler API; however, it's cumbersome to use and require a JDK not JRE.

Is it possible to do dynamic compilation without a JDK? (im very interested in all-in-memory compilation.)

additionally, i expect the performance to be close to raw java code, so i don't want to use a scripting language like BeanShell or Groovy.

thank you.

Answer 1

You might be interested in Janino, particularly SimpleCompiler. For in-memory compilation, you can use the Reader constructor, and a StringReader.