RE: sun.tools.javac.Main will be removed from JDK1.4

2001-07-20 Thread JULIEN,TIMOTHY (HP-NewJersey,ex2)
- From: Craig R. McClanahan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, July 20, 2001 1:54 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: sun.tools.javac.Main will be removed from JDK1.4 There are some pretty intense discussions going on about this, and the story hasn't yet been

Re: sun.tools.javac.Main will be removed from JDK1.4

2001-07-20 Thread Pier P. Fumagalli
JULIEN,TIMOTHY (HP-NewJersey,ex2) at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Over in HP middleware, we're not to happy with this development either our JSP implementation will suffer for the same reasons Jasper will We can work with an external compiler, but for speed, we much prefer

Re: sun.tools.javac.Main will be removed from JDK1.4

2001-07-20 Thread Christopher Cain
JULIEN,TIMOTHY (HP-NewJersey,ex2) wrote: Over in HP middleware, we're not to happy with this development either our JSP implementation will suffer for the same reasons Jasper will We can work with an external compiler, but for speed, we much prefer sun.tool.javac.Main. Just a

Re: sun.tools.javac.Main will be removed from JDK1.4

2001-07-20 Thread Jon Stevens
on 7/20/01 3:45 PM, Christopher Cain [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Just a question to satisfy my own curiosity (and possibly point out my compiler ignorance WRT using sun.tool.javac.Main and/or JSP compilation [since I don't do JSP]). You mention speed being the primary factor in using the Main

Re: sun.tools.javac.Main will be removed from JDK1.4

2001-07-20 Thread Christopher Cain
Jon Stevens wrote: Time to drop Javac and just use Jikes... LOL! I hadn't even read this one when I (just now) asked my why not just go with Jikes question. I've started noticing that Jon and I think alot alike, from HTML-formatted e-mail to documention approaches to JSP to compiler

Re: sun.tools.javac.Main will be removed from JDK1.4

2001-07-20 Thread Christopher Cain
Jon Stevens wrote: Jikes works fine. The issue is that Jikes is a C++ binary and isn't ported to every platform. Oh yeah ... =) It also makes installation/distribution issues a bit more tricky than simply calling a Java class file... Yep. I figured the issue was that it would require

Re: sun.tools.javac.Main will be removed from JDK1.4

2001-07-20 Thread Craig R. McClanahan
On Fri, 20 Jul 2001, Christopher Cain wrote: JULIEN,TIMOTHY (HP-NewJersey,ex2) wrote: Over in HP middleware, we're not to happy with this development either our JSP implementation will suffer for the same reasons Jasper will We can work with an external compiler, but for

Re: sun.tools.javac.Main will be removed from JDK1.4

2001-07-20 Thread Pier P. Fumagalli
Craig R. McClanahan at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I haven't looked at Jikes, so can't comment on the suitability of any APIs it exposes. Would someone like to look at this and report back? Last time I looked at the sources (when I was at IBM, 1+1/2 years ago), Jikes was not relying on

Re: sun.tools.javac.Main will be removed from JDK1.4

2001-07-20 Thread Pier P. Fumagalli
Christopher Cain at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Pier P. Fumagalli wrote: Craig R. McClanahan at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I haven't looked at Jikes, so can't comment on the suitability of any APIs it exposes. Would someone like to look at this and report back? Last time I looked at the

Re: sun.tools.javac.Main will be removed from JDK1.4

2001-07-20 Thread Pier P. Fumagalli
Christopher Cain at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Generic interface, of course :) Nice ... What's the point of doing otherwise? But I didn't say I'm going to do it... :) D'oh! Maybe I'll have to send my men into your home again, and maybe this time they steal your primary mod_webapp