RE: [Clirr-devel] about to commit changes to support a SPI

[Vincent M. <vm...@pi...>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: cli...@li... [mailto:clirr-devel-
> ad...@li...] On Behalf Of Lars K=FChne
> Sent: lundi 22 ao=FBt 2005 21:05
> To: cli...@li...
> Subject: [Clirr-devel] about to commit changes to support a SPI
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> Hi,
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> if nobody objects within the next few days, I will commit changes to
> clirr-core that introduce an SPI for providing the Java code =
structure.
> I think I discussed the idea with Simon a while ago, the basic idea is
> to let the checks work against a the interfaces /JavaType,/ /Field/ =
and
> /Method/ instead of working directly against the BCEL classes.
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> This change has three major objectives:
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>     * decouple our core logic from external dependencies (in this case
> BCEL)
>     * allow replacing BCEL with a faster/smaller/more-full-featured
>       (think Java5) byte code lib. ASM would be one of the candidates
>     * allow Clirr IDE plugins to use their IDE's internal code
>       representation, so compilation to class files is not required. =
It
>       should be possible to write a plugin that lets users detect
>       incompatible changes while they are typing the code.
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> All existing tests still pass, but this change could cause problems =
for
> some corner cases that are currently untested.
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> Let me know what you think.

Sounds good to me.

-Vincent