[Jython-users] A bug?

[John G. <jgo...@co...>]

Hi,

Today I tried to use jythonc to compile some code that subclassed one
of my own Java classes.  This was code that was supposed to be called
by Java.

jythonc refused to recognize that this class was a subclass of the
Java one, repeatedly.  Finally I tried saying it was a subclass of
java.lang.Date -- voila -- it worked.  So I tried to find out why.

Apparently, the problem was that one of the classes that the base
class needed was not on the CLASSPATH.  jythonc did not so much as
even issue a warning when it should have issued an error.  It took me
hours to track this down rather than 5 minutes it should have.
Running the script with jython finally made the error clear right
away.

Can we get some error checking in jythonc? 

Thanks!

-- John