Craig R. McClanahan wrote: > > > Would there be a value in a commons-javac? Several Apache projects seem to > > have need for this function... > > That would be an interesting approach, but also a non-trivial amount of > work. Any compiler hackers out there?
I guess I wasn't clear. It seems that more than one Apache project has a need to wrapper java compilers (classic, modern, jikes). It also seems that the amount of logic for dealing with the ideosyncracies with the various releases (1.2 only has classic, 1.3 has both, 1.4 may only have modern) continues to grow, particularly if now a classloader is recommended... Perhaps we could come up with a single set of common code which can be used by multiple projects? My only concern is the additional effort which will be required to bootstrap Ant, but I'm confident that's solvable. - Sam Ruby
