[DrJava] [ drjava-Bugs-592660 ] Can't compile using JDK 1.4.1 beta

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Bugs item #592660, was opened at 2002-08-08 16:06
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Category: Compiler integration
Group: Serious
Status: Open
Resolution: None
Priority: 7
Submitted By: Charles Reis (csreis)
Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody)
Summary: Can't compile using JDK 1.4.1 beta

Initial Comment:
It appears that the compiler in the tools.jar supplied
with JDK 1.4.1 beta will not work with DrJava.  Sun
doesn't distribute the source for their compiler (or
even the API, apparently), which makes this a little
difficult to track down.  Using javap, though, I
discovered that the JavaCompiler class appears to have
changed in the same way as JSR-14 (from 1.0 to 1.2). 
Looks like Sun is moving towards this new API, but we
still don't support it yet.

If 1.4.1 actually does use the JSR-14 v1.2, then we can
probably figure out what to change in our code (since
we have the JSR-14 code).  But we might just be forced
to start exec'ing the compiler and parsing the results,
since it's less than an ideal situation to have to
change our code every time Sun decides to change its
compiler...

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