On Jul 22, 2004, at 10:43 PM, Srinath Perera wrote:
If we need to generate Java source code and compile it, then I would rather have the deployment process simply do that. What I was really getting at is can we simply generate the byte code directly and skip the Java source generation and compile steps?
Have heard of generating the byte code directly but never done it my self
before. My only concern is in that way will the debuging become
nightmare. (as we are not good @ reading byte codes as computers.)
plus there would be quite bit of code changing in the generation code.. but that is not impossible if it worth it.
Normally, you write the standard code reused across all beans in normal java code that you compile an pack in a library jar. Then you only generate a tiny bit of byte code to implement an interface and call your library java code. This is how we implement EJB. We generate an implementation of the EJB interfaces and all that implementations does is call our EJB library code, which does stuff like check permissions and start transactions.
Anyway, it is not important for now, but something I'd like to do in the future.
-dain
