Re: [cedet-semantic] [jdee-users] System include paths for Java

[Paul L. <la...@ma...>]

Ludovic Courtès writes:
 > Hello,
 > 
 > Yee Keat Phuah <yk...@gm...> writes:
 > 
 > > On Wed, Jul 8, 2009 at 10:11 PM, Ludovic Courtès <lu...@gn...> wrote:
 > > [snip]
 > >> My feeling is that there's a gap to be bridged between both tools.  It
 > >> would be nice if Semantic were able to handle (2), so that we'd have a
 > >> uniform handling of Java symbol/class lookup.
 > >
 > >
 > > I am actually playing around with this.
 > 
 > Great!
 > 
 > > Its actually quite easy to extract out symbols from .class files, the format
 > > is pretty well documented and the parser can be easily ported from eclipse.
 > 
 > JDEE has a `.class' parser written in elisp (jde-parse-class.el).  My
 > understanding is that it's currently underutilized, as the commentary in
 > this file suggests.

I'm weary of anything that isn't supported well that parses classes.
The class format changes between releases of the JDK and I we (JDEE)
don't have the resources to keep up with the changing format.

 > In an ideal world, Semantic/Senator's neat completion framework would
 > allow us to complete things regardless of whether they are defined in a
 > `.java' or `.class' file---as opposed to choosing between `C-c C-v .'
 > and `M-/' depending on the phase of the moon.

My feeling is that semantic is the way to go for all things for which
we have source and using a (common) lisp JVM language (i.e. abcl/armed
bear) for everything else.

-- 
Paul Landes
la...@ma...