Two questions:
1) Does ANT and/or jdk1.3-based JAVAC perform automatic "forward"
dependency-checking? That is, ClassA depends on
ClassB depends on ClassC, and a change is made to ClassC.java, will
ANT or JAVAC figure that out and include it upon
recompiling ClassA.java? I think JAVAC does this automagically under
jdk1.3, replacing the need for the unofficial
-Xdepend option of jdk1.2.2, but I would like someone to confirm that
this is correct.
2) Conor: LOVE the stuff you're doing with "reverse" dependency-checking.
I haven't even downloaded your code yet --- and I
will --- but before I start picking through it, I thought I'd ask
whether it can be easily tweaked to spit out logfile of all dependencies
it has found. That is, when I compile com.mycompany.mypackage, could
I generate a list of all classes that depends on
somewhere? Like I said, I'll look at your code myself, but I thought
you might be able to tell me off the top of your head.
Thanks,
--dave
