Javac does not produce an output file to run?

[David Holmes]

On 17/02/2022 3:48 pm, Jeffrey Walton wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 17, 2022 at 12:28 AM David Holmes <david.holmes at oracle.com> wrote:
>>
>> Hi Jeffrey,
>>
>> This is a mailing list for discussing the OpenJDK not for general help
>> on how to write Java programs. There are many resources for beginner
>> Java programmers e.g.
> 
> Thanks David.
> 
> Maybe I am misunderstanding "discuss -- General discussion about the
> OpenJDK Community, unmoderated and possibly high-traffic",
> https://mail.openjdk.java.net/mailman/listinfo/discuss? Are OpenJDK
> users not part of the community?

It is for discussion _about_ the "OpenJDK community", not general 
discussion by members of that community.

Cheers,
David

>> https://docs.oracle.com/javase/tutorial/getStarted/index.html
>>
>> That said note that javac compiles Java source code (.java files) into
>> Java bytecode (.class files). You then use the java launcher to execute
>> (via interpretation and JIT compilation) those .class files.
> 
> Thanks.