[DrJava] [ drjava-Bugs-595735 ] can't use JSR14 on OS X

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Bugs item #595735, was opened at 2002-08-15 16:03
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Category: None
Group: None
Status: Open
Resolution: None
Priority: 5
Submitted By: Eric E. Allen (eallen)
Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody)
Summary: can't use JSR14 on OS X

Initial Comment:
The JSR-14 compiler (either version) doesn't work with DrJava on 
OS X. When running that compiler on any source file, the following 
error is reported:

Error: try to access field com.sun.tools.javac.v8.JavaCompiler.syms 
from class edu.rice.cs.drjava.model.compiler.JSR14Compiler(no 
associated file)

We believe this is because the OS X JVM prepends the class path 
with its own tools.jar. JSR-14 redefines many of the classes in the 
standard javac compiler, but on OS X, the ordinary Java class files 
are seen first. When we call JSR-14 methods that don't exist in the 
ordinary class files, The JVM signals the error above. 

Note: this same functionality on OS X guarrantees that DrJava 
always has a 1.3 compiler available, and that the debugger is always 
available, but it bites us with JSR-14.

-- Eric


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