Stephen Zander wrote:
You're suggesting that jikes can use the .class files in these packages to produce other .class packages without a runtime environment?
It depends on the definition of "runtime environment". If you mean "runtime environment" are just the core classes the of course the answer is no but if you're using Sun's definition of the Java Runtime Environment (JRE) then yes, you just need the core classes and no JVM.
Regards, Stefan Gybas