"Craig R. McClanahan" wrote:
>
> There are some pretty intense discussions going on about this, and the
> story hasn't yet been finished ...
>
> On the other hand, the "new" compiler entry point has an absolutely
> horrible feature (from the point of view of Jasper) -- you have to modify
> System.out and System.err to redirect the compiler output. Unless system
> variables are unique per classloader (they weren't last time I checked),
> that means we can only do one compile at a time :-(.
This concerns me for a lot of reasons. Mostly because it's a sign
of a poorly architected program. A compiler that does not abstract its
error reporting is very poorly designed. What happens when Java has
a logging API and they want to use that instead?
I'm one of the biggest Sun supporters you'll find. I think a lot of
bright engineers have come up with some very cool stuff. However,
this "feature" is one of the most boneheaded things I've ever heard. ;)
-Paul Speed
>
> 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.
>
> Craig
>
> On Fri, 20 Jul 2001, Sam Ruby wrote:
>
> > FYI. Bye bye "classic" compiler.
> >
> > Ant looks safe (it uses reflection), but Jasper looks like it will be
> > affected.
> >
> > - Sam Ruby
> >
> > ---------------------- Forwarded by Sam Ruby/Raleigh/IBM on 07/20/2001
> > 07:30 AM ---------------------------
> >
> > Davanum Srinivas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on 07/20/2001 06:16:57 AM
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> > Subject: sun.tools.javac.Main will be removed from JDK1.4
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> >
> > FYI,
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Leclair, Donald
> > Sent: Thursday, July 19, 2001 7:15 PM
> > To: J2EE Communications
> > Subject: Message 14: Class change impact
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> > Sent: Thursday, July 19, 2001 7:08 PM
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> > Dear Licensee,
> >
> > The Java(TM) 2 Platform, Standard Edition team will be making
> > a change that might impact you.
> >
> > The change is that the class "sun.tools.javac.Main"
> > (used for compiling java classes) will be removed in J2SE 1.4.
> > This is not a public API change. If you depend on this class
> > you may be impacted.
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