[DrJava] [ drjava-Feature Requests-2975327 ] Add Eclipse Compiler to Supported Compilers

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Feature Requests item #2975327, was opened at 2010-03-23 09:53
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Category: Compiler integration
Group: None
Status: Open
Priority: 5
Private: No
Submitted By: Stephen Gilbert (stephendgilbert)
Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody)
Summary: Add Eclipse Compiler to Supported Compilers

Initial Comment:
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

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