Programming

At work we use HP-UX B.11.11 U (garnished from uname -a), but they have not installed a development environment for java. There is, however, a runtime environment set up. I've been attempting to overcome the beauracracy of getting a jdk installed, but we all know how nearly impossible that can be. My question is: Is there any compiler out there that can compile .class files for a UNIX box, but done on a Windows machine? Like an emulator of sorts? If I can just get the proper .class files, I should be able to at least run the programs on UNIX. I don't think they'd like me to install my own jdk, which takes up about 670 MB.

On your windows box you can install cygwin - it runs RH linux as a guest operating system - linux. There are all kinds of java environments avaialble for it - Eclipse comes to mind. All free and as long as you have several GB of free disk to throw at this project it may meet your needs. I dunno.

Cygwin Information and Installation

Java's .class files are platform independend. You can compile the .java files on any machine with any jdk version to .class files and use them there. Just install the jdk for windows on your windows machine.

It doesn't really. Cygwin provides a Gnu/Linux like environment to Windows by implementing a compatibility layer. It doesn't run a guest OS so Linux binaries won't run there.

Thanks, calv. You hit the nail on the head. For some reason I thought .java files had to be compiled on the architecture being used. But it's the JVM that interprets the .class files.