> -----Original Message-----
> From: Craig R. McClanahan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
>
> On Wed, 12 Sep 2001, jean-frederic clere wrote:
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > How was the issue with sun.tools.javac.Main solved?
> >
>
> It is going to be deferred to a future release. Here's the reasoning:
>
> * The Merlin (i.e. JDK 1.4) folks originally planned to simply
> remove the old compiler entry point. But they have changed
> plans, and now it is merely deprecated. The old compiler *will*
> work in the 1.4 final release, so the time pressure is off.
>
> * The new entry point can indeed be programmed to (like Ant does,
> for example), but it has a crippling disadvantage for a servlet
> container - it only writes error messages to System.out, so you
> have to synchronize and do at most one compile at a time. This
> is not a good thing, and I'd rather see us take some time to
> look at alternative approaches.
Nice of them - esp considering that they added a log capability into the
base distribution...
> > Cheers
> >
> > Jean-frederic
> >
>
> Craig
J.
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