----- Original Message ----- From: "Craig R. McClanahan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Saturday, July 21, 2001 3:53 AM Subject: Re: sun.tools.javac.Main will be removed from JDK1.4
> An additional note of interest to Ant developers - there is evidence that > running the compiler (either old or new) leaves a fair amount of cruft > lying around in static variables, after the compile has completed. The > recommended solution is to load the compiler itself in its own class > loader, so that you can throw it all away afterwards. That's the approach > we'll take when modifying Jasper. We had reached the same conclusion for different reasons. On Windows platforms, it seems that javac will retain locks on jars in the classpath. Conor
