Thanks to Devin Weaver <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, who implemented everything which was missing, there is now a new set of autoconf macros for Java:
http://www.internatif.org/bortzmeyer/autoconf-Java/ * no longer need a Java compiler to test the Java VM or to test if a class is there, * allows configure.in's author to test custom sources, * and more. Most Java programs are distributed as simple jars, without any easy mean to compile them, which I regard as an obligation for a Debian package (at least in main, see bug #49557 and the recent thread "On the use of pre-compiled classes in packages"). Therefore, I suggest Debian Java packagers to use tools like the above macros and mmake to allow an easy recompilation of Java programs.
