There's been work done towards this already. Digging out an old link: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/javax_compiler/
yahoo groups doesn't seem to be working for the group at the moment though, so I can't take a peek and see how things have been going (or even if the group is still active). hopefully "in a few minutes" their database will become available again. michael > -----Original Message----- > From: Craig R. McClanahan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Friday, January 25, 2002 8:05 PM > To: Jakarta Commons Developers List > Subject: RE: Jasper's java compiler. > > > > > On Fri, 25 Jan 2002, Scott Sanders wrote: > > > Date: Fri, 25 Jan 2002 16:40:38 -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. > > > > How do we start one? I'm assuming it's a RTFM of some sort? > > > > The "FM" is at <http://www.jcp.org>. They have some good > overviews of the > entire process, plus the copious details of every step. > > > Scott > > Craig > > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > > From: Craig R. McClanahan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > > > Sent: Friday, January 25, 2002 3:55 PM > > > To: Jakarta Commons Developers List > > > Subject: Re: Jasper's java compiler. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > 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: > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > 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? > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > > > Geir Magnusson Jr. > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > Craig > > > > > > > > > -- > > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: > > > <mailto:commons-dev-> [EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > For > > > additional commands, > > > e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > > > > > > > -- > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: > <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > For additional commands, e-mail: > <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > > > > -- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: > <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > For additional commands, e-mail: > <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
