hi alain, > > The project is becoming > > more and more complex and I have not been able to implement the > > dependencies into the Makefiles. So I decided to give this a try in the > > JDE environment, but also in vain. > > Nope, JDE is not the answer. You need an external tool for that. You can look at >Jikes > for dependency rules generation for makefiles.
as was already pointed out by different people, jde alone will not give you this dependency checking. however, if i remember it right, JBuilder can't do this either. it just recompiles every class it finds. something like this is certainly possible with a simple make or ant file. and as a side remark, if you are really going to recompile the whole project - you should consider using jikes - this speeds up the compile time tremendeously. furthermore, jikes is able to do some dependency checking, but i haven't played with that myself. heinz-dieter
