On Fri, 25 Jan 2002, Geir Magnusson Jr. wrote:
> Date: Fri, 25 Jan 2002 17:52:01 -0500
> From: Geir Magnusson Jr. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Reply-To: Jakarta Commons Developers List <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: Jakarta Commons Developers List <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subject: Re: Jasper's java compiler.
>
> On 1/25/02 2:02 PM, "Craig R. McClanahan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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> >
> >
> > On Fri, 25 Jan 2002, Scott Sanders wrote:
> >
> >> Date: Fri, 25 Jan 2002 10:38:07 -0800
> >> From: Scott Sanders <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> >> Reply-To: Jakarta Commons Developers List <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> >> To: Jakarta Commons Developers List <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> >> Subject: RE: Jasper's java compiler.
> >>
> >> Yes. A compiler interface would be a very good thing. Perhaps Ant has
> >> some usable code as well.
> >>
> >
> > Besides being a useful reusable component, a community around this would
> > be a good forum to discuss requirements for a possible standardized
> > compiler interface. The existing "classic" APIs that everyone uses
> > (including Tomcat and Ant) are deprecated in JDK 1.4, but the new one is
> > not at all friendly to use inside a multi-threaded environment (it does
> > things like writing only to System.out for error messages, so it looks
> > like we'd have to serialize compiles of JSP pages).
>
> How did that happen, the 'miss' on the compiler API in 1.4? I mean, there
> must be about 1MM people with suggestions on how to make it better...
>
What we needed/need to do is have a JSR submitted for a compiler SPI
(service provider interface). The current one is just an internal
unpublished com.sun.xxxxx class -- there's no existing standard.
Wanna start one?
>
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> Geir Magnusson Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Craig
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