JBuilder's build system uses a package model, not a file model. When you ask it to make or build a single file from the project pane, JBuilder will compile that file, but it will also inspect its dependency information and may well compile more files. These can include classes which extend or use the target class, both within the target package and outside.

JBuilder does this to ensure that changes made within the target class will not break other classes which use the target. Sun's javac compiler does not make this check for you.

Because JBuilder uses a package model, it will notice every java file in a package and compile everything in that package.
2001-Jun-12 11:54pm gyles19@visi.com

Valentino Kyriakides
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