Fred Dushin wrote: > > If you're really jonesing for a preprocessor, just *use* cpp. No, this is bad advice, especially to someone new to Java. Java was designed to not need a pre-processor. For how to do conditional compilation, see the end of section 14.19 in the Java Language Specification: http://www.javasoft.com/docs/books/jls/html/14.doc.html#236365 Cheers Geoff