Java Compile Server

[ see "docs/Install.txt" for installation instructions ]

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Contents

The directory "Docs/" has the documentation.
The directory "Source/" has the Java source code.
The directory "Scripts/" contains the source for the launch scripts.
The directory "Config/" contains the default configuration file and a
    configuration-testing script.

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Introduction

This program is intended to reduce the perceived time it takes to
compile a Java file using the JDK compiler.

The JDK compiler is actually written in Java.  When you invoke
"javac", a JVM starts up, executes the compiler and then shuts down.
The JVM startup time is often much greater than the actual compile
time when the amount of code being compiled is small (i.e. < 10k
lines).

To solve this problem, this program keeps the compiler loaded and
processes compilation requests.  This is done by loading the compiler
classes into it's own JVM and listening on a localhost port for
compilation requests.

The compilation requests are made by simple shell scripts and the
output should be similar to an invocation of the regular "javac"
command.