Hi David,
You have a tendency to ask hard questions I can't readily answer. Of
the many you asked recently, I'll focus on this one. Due to many
questions on the topic, I started a ede/java-root project to mimic what
cpp-root does for C, and includes the classpath as a setting. Hopefully
I can get it tested and post it sometime soon.
To describe the relationship between the java support files, I
started with the android project type, because that's what I was
learning at the time. There are many kinds of Java projects, so I
wanted to make sure that if a new project type was created, (such as
ede/java-root) it could lean on the work that came before.
Thus the cedet-java file is as you have noticed, just some utilities
for calling java functions. Db-javap is, of course, a generic way to
create Semantic symbol tables from java Jar files, or from directories.
You are right about the semanticdb-javap-classpath being left-overs
from development. It could probably be deleted, or added to
semanticdb-javap-classpath-objects.
Finally back to android. The android project needs to point at the
android java jar file (thus the method you discuss below.) That will
use both the default java utilities, and the android utilities, both
defined as cedet-java or cedet-android, which are just utils for calling
external programs.
The best place to have a classpath is via EDE, but that only works if
you have a good project. You can use cedet-java-classpath-extension
too. I haven't tried setting up a project like this, but I think others
have done so successfully.
You can mostly ignore cedet-java.el, except apparently for the classpath
extension. You can also use it to check version numbers of your JDK. I
think long term it would be nice if this file allowed users to
investigate their java environment, and check for compatibility problems.
I don't know the answer to the other completion questions you asked.
When I was working on Android I know I had completion situations similar
to what you describe that worked ok for me. What needs to happen is for
some robust generic java project type to be created so that some serious
tests can be written against java that includes the system jar files.
Perhaps java-root will enable that. The current java tests are forced
to complete only on locally defined symbols, which means we can't lock
down behaviors against jar files similar to the problem you described.
Eric
On 05/31/2012 12:02 AM, David Ventimiglia wrote:
> Hi,
>
> What is the relationship between cedet-java.el, android.el, and
> db-javap.el? My observations so far:
>
> * cedet-java.el defines variables for the classpath, the javap
> command, etc., and defines methods for calling javap.
> * db-javap.el in turn calls cedet-java.el's cedet-javap-get-class.
> * db-javap.el gets used by Semantic, via an override of
> semanticdb-find-table-for-include in db-javap.el
> * db-javap.el also defines its own semanticdb-javap-classpath.
> * But then db-javap.el seems not to use that
> semanticdb-javap-classpath in semanticdb-javap-classpath-objects
> * Instead, semanticdb-javap-classpath-objects uses just the EDE
> project's ede-java-classpath method.
> * android.el defines an ede-javap-classpath method to its EDE project.
>
> I think I see some patterns here.
>
> * android.el defines an EDE project type for Android projects (A
> Java EDE project type probably would look similar).
> * cedet-android.el defines helper functions for Android projects,
> but isn't directly related to EDE or Semantic.
> * Semantic/SemanticDB gets tags for JAR files from db-javap.el,
> which uses helper functions in cedet-java.el.
>
> Some specific questions I have are:
>
> 1. Where should I set my classpath? cedet-java-classpath-extension?
> semanticdb-javap-classpath? ede-java-classpath in an EDE
> project? Some combination thereof?
> 2. What is semanticdb-javap-classpath for, since it's not referenced
> anywhere? Is it vestigial?
> 3. Few of the functions in cedet-java.el are interactive. As a user
> of CEDET, Semantic, and EDE, should I largely ignore this file?
>
> Thanks!
>
> Best,
>
> David
>
>
>
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