--- Patrick Tullmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Jetty finds tools.jar itself based on the > java.home property and > > adds it to its own classloader. All do some > checking to see if > > using the ant.jar directly can do the same thing. > > 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.
Programs that use any com.sun.tools.* class are broken by default anyway. They work by sheer luck and coincidence. If you write a program that needs to use a java compiler, provide a way to specify it. Ant does that via -Dbuild.compiler=something. A trivial compiler lookup implementation in my eyes would be to check a myapp.java.compiler property, and try to load the class. If that fails, then call it as a process. That would handle all java based compilers *and* non-java based ones. best regards, dalibor topic __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail Plus - Powerful. Affordable. Sign up now. http://mailplus.yahoo.com
