On Tue, 22 Nov 2022 20:50:04 GMT, Magnus Ihse Bursie <i...@openjdk.org> wrote:

> In JDK-8297041, the javacserver was moved out of the JDK itself, and lifted 
> out as a separate buildtool. Due to this, internal classes in jdk.compiler 
> were no longer available. Therefore, the closest way to calling javac as 
> before were to use `com.sun.tools.javac.Main.compile()`. This method is 
> however deprecated for removal, and relying on that was only needed as a 
> temporary measure during the transition.
> 
> After the major refactoring of the javacserver tool in JDK-8297444, it will 
> be easy to replace the Main.compile API with the official ToolProvider API 
> instead.

Marked as reviewed by erikj (Reviewer).

Just to make sure, will this find the interim javac before the bootjdk javac? 
How is this enforced?

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PR: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/11299

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