Trouble is you will have to write your (non-trivial) annotation processor in Java so it's a chicken and the egg problem.

For a brute force solution you could just create symlinks (shortcuts) to your *.java files with *.jav extensions. Trial to write a PowerShell script to do that.


On 2020-04-15 9:05 AM, CM Poncelet wrote:
Nice one. Thanks for that. I'll follow it up. Cheers.

On 14/04/2020 12:29, Barkow, Eileen wrote:
You need to set up annotation processor files but I am not sure how to do this.
m:\javaprog>javac streamx.jav
error: Class names, 'streamx.jav', are only accepted if annotation processing 
is explicitly requested

-----Original Message-----
From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <[email protected]> On Behalf Of CM 
Poncelet
Sent: Monday, April 13, 2020 10:56 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: How to change the default '.java' extension to '.jav'?

Thanks, but I can write, compile and run any Java program from SPF/PC (howbeit with some 
'challenges') as long as it contains no "import" of classes etc.

All I wanted to know is how to change the default ".java" extension to a 3-char one e.g. 
".jav", that's all. I can deal with the rest.

Thanks anyway.

Cheers, Chris Poncelet



On 13/04/2020 10:31, David Crayford wrote:
I'm familiar with SPF/PC and that's great for simple editing with
something familiar from ISPF.

However, if you want to learn Java beyond "hello world" you will need
an IDE. Java is a complex language and just creating packages and
classes is onerous using a text editor. You need context assist and
one-click refactoring to help you and either IDEA or Eclipse will do
that.

On 2020-04-13 11:13 AM, CM Poncelet wrote:
SPF/PC is the CTC PC-version of ISPF/PDF. It supports Rexx (but not
the full IBM REXX), ISREDIT edit macros, primary and line commands,
tables, panels etc., and it also supports assembling, compiling,
link-editing and executing programs - all from within SPF/PC.
   I use it for writing Rexx, C, C++, MASM 6.1 (the Microsoft version
of Intel assembler) and for just about everything else.
   The problem with compiling Java is that SPF/PC supports only DOS
8.3 format files, which then excludes ".java" extensions as shown below:

javac C:\JAVA\MYPROGS\CH01\HELLO1~1.java >
C:\JAVA\OUTPUT\HELLO1~1.OUT
javac: file not found: C:\JAVA\MYPROGS\CH01\HELLO1~1.java
Usage: javac <options> <source files> use -help for a list of
possible options
   The alternative would be to use "Notepad", up with which I will not
put.

     SPF/PC(1) ──────────────────── PRIMARY OPTION PANEL
───────────────────── V 4.0
   OPTION  ═══►

      0  SPF/PC PARMS - Specify terminal and user parameters USERID
- CMP
      1  BROWSE       - Display source data or output listings TIME
- 03:50
      2  EDIT         - Create or change source data           OPER
SYS - DOS
      3  UTILITIES    - Perform utility functions DATE     - 20.097
      4  FOREGROUND   - Invoke user applications in foreground
      5  ENVIRONMENT  - Display information about system configuration
      6  COMMAND      - Execute system command
      7  DIALOG TEST  - Perform dialog testing
      8  EH?          - Testing new features
      C  CHANGES      - Changes from last version
      T  TUTORIAL     - Display information about SPF/PC
      S  SAMPLES      - Sample panels and programs         ▄▄▄ ▄▄▄▄
      X  EXIT         - Terminate SPF/PC                  ▄▄▄▄─ ▄▄▄▄▄▄
                                                         ▄▄─▄▄─
▄▄──▄▄─
   Enter END command to terminate SPF/PC.               ▄▄─ ▄▄─ ▄▄─
▄▄─
                                                       ▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄ ▄▄─
▄▄─
          VERSION 4.0.7 (C) COPYRIGHT                   ────▄▄── ▄▄
▄▄▄▄▄▄─
       COMMAND TECHNOLOGY CORP 1984, 1994                   ▄▄─  ▄▄─
▄▄▄▄──
                                                             ──   ──
────



On 12/04/2020 04:42, David Crayford wrote:
Instead of these work arounds to use a prehistoric DOS-based editor
why don't you switch to an IDE?

The best IDE for Java is Intellij IDEA which has highly advanced
code analysis/refactoring features. What exactly does SPF/PC buy you?

On 2020-04-12 10:56 AM, CM Poncelet wrote:
No can do. The SPF/PC 4.0.7 editor is DOS-based, but has an
extender to use whatever memory it needs > 640K.
    It's Windoze that needs fixing.


On 12/04/2020 03:45, Paul Gilmartin wrote:
On Sun, 12 Apr 2020 03:40:58 +0100, CM Poncelet wrote:

Thanks, but never mind.
    The change to using '.jav' instead of '.java' for the compiler
would have to be done at Java's implementation level, i.e. as a
sysadmin or sysprog. I have found no-one among the Java
developers and course tutors who could tell me how to do this. So
I thought this list *might* know.

Better to fix the editor than to break the compiler.

-- gil

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