Re: [DrJava] ack re jsr14 1.2

[Charles R. <cr...@ri...>]

Rather than compiling against the JSR-14 v1.0/v1.2 compilers directly, 
couldn't we just invoke their compile, etc, methods using reflection? 
Then we don't have to worry about this if the compiler interface changes 
yet again-- we just "invoke" a different method...

I'm not entirely against the other method (some classes only compile in 
some environments), but I'd like to allow everyone to be able to compile 
everything as long as we can, if possible...

Of course, if reflection isn't an option, I think we'd have to do that 
anyway-- JSR-14 v1.0 isn't available anymore, so only people who have an 
old copy could compile DrJava if we went the route of requiring both. 
(And we've already gotten complaints from people outside Rice who want 
to compile.  Rightfully so...)

Charlie