On Mon, Nov 7, 2016 at 8:42 AM, Bertrand Delacretaz <[email protected]> wrote: > ...My understanding (but I'm clueless about NetBeans internals so far) is > that it's a patched version of the standard javac compiler, that's > required to build NetBeans. > > I suppose it's also required at runtime by the NetBeans Java subsystem. ...
I see that Ate has clarified this at https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LEGAL-279, thanks! Quoting from there: > The nb-javac module is a NetBeans specific fork of the Java JDK Java compiler, > and is explicitly excluded by Oracle from the NetBeans code donation to > Apache. > The NetBeans optional Java cluster modules (for example the Java Editor) have > a direct compile and runtime dependency on the nb-javac module > (api and implementation). -Bertrand
