Re: New JSR on Java(TM) Compiler API

2002-10-11 Thread Neal M Gafter
Kin-Man Chung wrote: > If these are not feasible, then at least include in the API a way to > inform the client of the error locations programmatically. It's in there: "Diagnostics will be returned from a compiler as structured data, with both pre- and post-localization messages a

Re: New JSR on Java(TM) Compiler API

2002-10-11 Thread Kin-Man Chung
This is great and is sorely needed. I am all for it! It'd be nice if the new API also include supports for JSR-45 (Debugging Support for Other Languages). For instance, when invoking javac with a smap file, javac should 1) report errors by JSP page source and line numbers, and 2) incoporate t