Bug 13765

Description Peter Burka 2002-04-14 23:10:48 EDT

Tested against WSDD 4.0, but I suspect that the problem persists in the latest 
2.0 builds.

When the compiler compiles a problem class, it appears to generate code which 
depends on reflect.  This causes errors on configurations which do not include 
reflect (e.g. CLDC, MIDP and several Websphere Custom Environment configs).

Ideally, the compiler would detect that reflect classes are not available, and 
generate simpler error handling code.

The stack trace that results from problem classes on CLDC VMs is quite 
misleading:

java.lang.Error: IncompatibleClassChangeError: java/lang/Class.getConstructor
([Ljava/lang/Class;)Ljava/lang/reflect/Constructor;

Stack trace:
   java/lang/Throwable.<init>()V
   java/lang/Throwable.<init>(Ljava/lang/String;)V
   com/ibm/oti/error/Error.<init>(Ljava/lang/String;)V
   com/ibm/oti/error/IncompatibleClassChangeError.<init>(Ljava/lang/String;)V
   net/quux/scrabble/ui/AddUserDialog.<init>
(Lnet/quux/scrabble/ui/ScoreCard;Lorg/eclipse/swt/widgets/Shell;)V
   net/quux/scrabble/ui/ScoreCard.<init>(Lorg/eclipse/swt/widgets/Composite;)V
   Main.main([Ljava/lang/String;)V