[DrJava] Problems with the current release

[Peter C. <cen...@ri...>]

Executive Summary:

The current cvs build of DrJava is definitely not 
release-quality, particularly on OS X.

Full Narative:

First of all, ant test seems to hang while running 
GlobalModelOtherTest.  I've tried this several times, with full 
updates of util and the main packages between attempts.  The 
first attempt showed no progress after 3.5 hours.  The second 
and third took half an hour and an hour respectively, with 
similar lack of results.

When I opened GlobalModelOtherTest.java in DrJava to try out the 
new Test button, I got no love.  First, JSR14 compilation failed 
with an IllegalAccessError.  This occurs for several different 
files I have attempted to compile.  GJ and the standard javac 
work fine.

Next, I switched to the standard javac and clicked Test again.  
Now I get a NoClassDefFoundError for GlobalModelTestCase and 
DrJava is completely locked up with a busy cursor.  No click 
events seem to be registering, although the menus still 
respond.  I think this error was caused by a dependency in the 
test case in this specific class, but it should certainly be 
handled more gracefully.

Running the tests through junitgui reveals that the jsr14 error 
is what's causing the ant test hang.  For some reason the 
problem is not getting reported back to ant.  Maybe this is 
because an Error is generated, not an Exception.  The Error 
actually happens quite quickly.

Here's an exception trace, to help in fixing this:

java.lang.IllegalAccessError: try to access field 
com.sun.tools.javac.v8.JavaCompiler.syms from class 
edu.rice.cs.drjava.model.compiler.JSR14Compiler
	at 
edu.rice.cs.drjava.model.compiler.JSR14Compiler.initCompiler
(JSR14Compiler.java:88)
	at 
edu.rice.cs.drjava.model.compiler.JavacGJCompiler.compile
(JavacGJCompiler.java:139)
	at 
edu.rice.cs.drjava.model.compiler.CompilerProxy.compile(CompilerProxy.java:
120)
	at 
edu.rice.cs.drjava.model.DefaultGlobalModel$DefinitionsDocumentHandler.startCompile(
DefaultGlobalModel.java:935)
	at 
edu.rice.cs.drjava.model.GlobalModelOtherTest._doCompile
(GlobalModelOtherTest.java:261)
	at 
edu.rice.cs.drjava.model.GlobalModelOtherTest.testInteractionsCanSeeChangedClass(
GlobalModelOtherTest.java:301)

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Peter