posted 20 years ago
sorry Joe, you're right patience is a virtue!....Im glad you pointed me to that page because I've never read it before. Now that I've been schooled on the proper way to make posts on this site, I will follow the guidelines. Thanks again for your help.
Ok, back to the issue at hand. I don't know if changing the file extension will work for me. I am compiling .java files, and as you know, in return i get .class files. Even if I change the .java extension to .class , is it legal to name my source code xyz.class when its not actually byte code? Or will the compiler still convert my source code to byte code? If so, does it just overwrite the contents of my source code with the byte code, keeping the same name?