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Interesting enough, Google chose to build upon the Eclipse java compiler instead of Sun/Oracle's javac. I'm guessing this is due to javac being GPL and the Android SDK being Apache License 2.0.

This is strangely reminiscent of Apple's strong backing of LLVM.

More competition and corporate funding in the compiler scene is always a good thing.

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Perhaps I don't pay attention to these things enough (or haven't seriously worked in Java in a while) but to me it was interesting simply to find out that Eclipse has its own Java compiler instead of using javac.

For me too :-) I'm guessing, it's a reference to this:

http://eclipse.org/jdt/core/