On Sat, Jan 11, 2003 at 01:35:53PM -0700, Patrick Tullmann wrote: > It occurred to me that these tools (ant, jetty, etc.) are only > dependent upon a specific class name (i.e., com.sun.tools.javac.Main), > and what they really want is whatever jar file contains that class. > > It seems to me that the right way to get away from making 'tools.jar' > a standard name is to provide a way for packages to depend upon "the > jar that contains foo.bar.baz" (perhaps more generally "the classpath > element that contains foo.bar.baz".
But is anyone else reimplimenting any parts of tools.jar? I doubt it, in which case this is pointless. (Not that it isn't a good idea in principle.) Maybe someone just needs to wrap this up in a (dead simple) compiler API, and provide an implementation that uses tools.jar, and an implementation that uses the preferred command-line compiler. Andrew
