Create class from source in memory

[toddobryan]

I've hunted through the Javassist API, but I can't find what I think is something it should be able to do.

I'd like to read in a .java file and create a class in memory without writing out a .class file. Unfortunately, com.sun.tools.javac.Main doesn't seem to have a way to output the bytecode to anything other than a file in the filesystem. And CtClass doesn't seem to have a constructor that accepts a source code stream rather than a stream of bytecodes.

Is this possible with Javassist? If not, any other ideas how I might go about it?

Thanks,
Todd

[chiba]

You cannot make a CtClass from source code of a whole
class declaration. However, you can first create an empty
CtClass and then append to it a CtMethod created from
source code of a method declaration.