Re: sun.tools.javac.Main will be removed from JDK1.4

[Christopher Cain]

"Pier P. Fumagalli" wrote:
> 
> Craig R. McClanahan at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> >
> > I haven't looked at Jikes, so can't comment on the suitability of any APIs
> > it exposes.  Would someone like to look at this and report back?
> 
> Last time I looked at the sources (when I was at IBM, 1+1/2 years ago),
> Jikes was not relying on threads, and had a decent code base (it wasn't
> printing error messages to stderr, but was mirroring its FILE * in an
> internal variable, if I remember it right)...
> 
> If that's the case, it _would_ be possible (probably, but not guaranteed) to
> compile it as a library with some hacks and wrap it somehow with a nice
> class, with all callbacks we need...
> 
> Should check the code at this point, though...

That would be SWEET. I would be willing to help with the Java wrapper
part, but since I know just enough C to be dangerous, I wouldn't really
be of much help with that aspect. Are we talking a specialized wrapper
targetting specifically the stuff required for JSP, or are we talking
about a general all-purpose Java wrapper that we could possibly release
as a separate tool?

>     Pier (ROTFL for the new MTV-ringtones ad)

WTF? I must have missed that one. A pop-up web ad, you mean?