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33<p>
34The Java&trade; programming language compiler API is a set of interfaces that describes the
35functions provided by a compiler.  This API has three
36main objectives:
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41<li>Allow invocation of a compiler from a program using
42standardized interfaces.</li>
43
44<li>Provide interfaces enabling the compiler to report diagnostics in a
45structured way.</li>
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47<li>Provide interfaces enabling clients of the compiler to override
48how file objects are found.  "File objects" is a file
49abstraction.</li>
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