What is the difference between compilers?

[pawan chopra]

Hi All,

I was going through one article http://www.javaspecialists.eu/archive/Issue068.html . In this article he explained that there is difference between the Eclipse's compiler and Sun's compiler. I tried to understand the difference explained in the article but I was not able to get it properly. Can any one let me know that which kind of compiler is used by Eclipse and What is the difference that makes it faster than Sun's compiles. Thanks!

[Ernest Friedman-Hill]

It doesn't really matter -- the article you link is old, and is comparing old versions of Eclipse and Sun's JDK compiler. Neither compiler will use StringBuffer anymore; they'll use StringBuilder, a new class introduced in Java 5.

[Dmitry Mamonov]

Here is the difference:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/314572/bug-in-eclipse-compiler-or-in-javac

(Eclipse 3.4, java 6 sun compiler)

try google with "generics eclipse sun compiler difference"