Re: compiler class

From:

"Andrew Thompson" <andrewthommo@gmail.com>

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comp.lang.java.help

Date:

30 Dec 2006 21:35:13 -0800

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Jean Pierre Daviau wrote:

"Gordon Beaton" <n.o.t@for.email> a =E9crit dans le message de
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On Sat, 30 Dec 2006 12:18:48 -0500, Jean Pierre Daviau wrote:

...programmatically
compile a class with a third party compiler.

...

Sun recommends the following procedure,

.....

http://java.sun.com/developer/JDCTechTips/2003/tt0722.html#2

Is this possible with jdk1.1.8?

What did your tests indicate?

Note 1: That the compiler will probably only be able
to write the 1.1 class fromat, & will only be able to
compile code up to the Java version the end-user
has installed, though I doubt it could ever handle
such language developments as generics or
annotations - in any form.

There is a java.lang.Compiler class there too...
I would prefer because of the size of tools.jar in 1.2 + versions
of jdk

Note 2: That the (very not publicly) documented classes
of the com.sun.* package heirarchy are undocumented
for a variety of reasons, one of which is that Sun
reserved the right to move the 'entry points' to the code
at will. AFAIR - their were a number of changes that
affected the developers of Apache/Tomcat.

Andrew T.

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