prabesh013
Reputation: 15
about Eclipse for Java
If eclipse has a compiler (see Wikipedia article on IDEs, third line), itself why do I have to download the jdk for compiling .java files? Doesn't eclipse convert my file to bytecode?
Upvotes: 1
Views: 80
Answers (1)
Evgeniy Dorofeev
Reputation: 135992
Eclipse has its own compiler and it can work with JRE only. JRE is needed because Eclipse itself is run with java. However if we have JDK installed we can see Java platform class sources during develepment. Also Eclipse's Maven plugin uses JDK compiler.
Upvotes: 3