[Recoder-announce] Prerelease 1 of RECODER 0.71

[Andreas L. <lu...@ip...>]

I checked in important bug fixes and new features.
You can access this prerelease via anonymous CVS:

touch ~/.cvspass # if file does not exist already
cvs -d:pserver:ano...@cv...:/cvsroot/recoder login 
cvs -z3 -d:pserver:ano...@cv...:/cvsroot/recoder co RECODER

Please report any remaining bugs and problems.

Andreas Ludwig

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Andreas Ludwig, Universität Karlsruhe, Institut für Programmstrukturen, 
Adenauerring 20a, Gebäude 50.41, 76131 Karlsruhe, Germany
tel:+49/721/608-6087 http://i44www.info.uni-karlsruhe.de/~ludwig
fax:+49/721/30047    mailto:lu...@ip...



=== very important changes ===

The "assert" keyword can be switched on and off via the
jdk1.4 - property.
 Run with -Djdk1.4=true set to activate assert statement parsing.

Recoder can now import class file information via Java reflection.
The new recoder.bytecode.ReflectionImport class will take care for
that.  NameInfo is now a PropertyChangeListener of the project
settings and listens to changes of the search mode.  As a consequence,
the autoLoad and preferPrecompiled switches in DefaultNameInfo have
been replaced by a more general solution. The new property
class.search.mode defines the search priorities when looking for
logical class type names: The !autoLoad setting is "".  The
preferPrecompiled setting is "cs".  The default setting is "sc".  To
use the VM classes as final resort: "scr" (You should not call
ensureSystemClassesAreInPath if you want to use reflection as primary
source for classes in "sr" setting).  There is one potential problem:
Blank finals cannot be distinguished from initialized static finals in
bytecode; are they Java Compile-Time Constants?  This could make a
difference for overloading resolution and automatic type narrowing.

Added ErrorHandler.  Check modes have been removed from
CrossReferenceSourceInfo. Subclasses of DefaultErrorHandler can
achieve this effects easily by overriding specialized functions.
Analysis exceptions now carry context information.  NameInfo controls
placeholders for unknown program model elements.  Not all errors are
reported; the situation is no longer really terrible, it is now just
bad.  The FileRepositories no longer yield parser exceptions for
logical class type queries. Parser and IOExceptions are passed to the
error handler instead.

--- quite important changes ---
doclet now works with 1.3.1, but not with 1.4.0beta

Bugfix: ParenthesizedExpression is now a StatementExpression.

Made sourcefile repository and datafile location more robust against
failures and security issues. The default sourcefile repository will
now create missing package directories (and the output path) only if
actually printing.

The project settings now correctly override properties with
environmental settings (-D options). Only hard-coded defaults will be
reported as defaults.

Bugfix in recoder.kit.transformation.RenamePackage 
concerning full package names (index broken).

Semicola after static initializers are now accepted.

--- negligible changes ---

Moved the inner class file localization code from the name info
to the class file repository - it's not the job of the name info
to know the details of the class file '$'-naming scheme.