#373 Add Eclipse Compiler to Supported Compilers
Hi,
We've been using DrJava this semester and I really like it. One thing that would make it easier, though, is if it were more "self-contained". I give the students a copy on a thumb drive and they carry it around with them and use it on different labs on campus. The problem is that many of the labs don't have the JDK, only the Java runtime. To get around this, I also show them how to make a copy of tools.jar and carry it around as well. This works, but I still answer about a half-dozen emails a week from students who have forgotten what to do when they get the "No Compiler Found" message. It would be nice if we could get a version of DrJava with the ECJ compiler bundled in so that it was used if there was no JDK on the machine. (Of course, then other tools like Javadoc wouldn't work.)
Thanks.
--Steve
Implemented as of revision 5210. Includes a slightly modified Eclipse compiler from milestone 3.6M3 (I had to make a bug fix in the Eclipse compiler for a bug I filed, see https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=308256 ).
When only the Eclipse compiler is available, the debugger and the javadoc feature don't work.