[ajdt-dev] Tricky bug in 1.06 plugin

[Ron Bodkin <rbodkin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

We just spent the better part of the day trying to debug a problem 
in which AJDT was failing to produce compiler output. It was producing 
no tasks to indicate compiler errors, nor any exceptions. There were 
no indications of a problem in the ajdt event trace nor in the plugin 
debug error log.

I eventually debugged the problem by using the command line compiler 
to discover there was a missing jar. I believe the jar was accessed 
later in compilation, while weaving rather than in initial compilation.
The way the ajc compiler emitted the errors was also very odd: it 
didn't have any command lines or source code. Here's the command 
line output I saw:
C:\eclipse\workspace\LocosUsage>ajc -source 1.4 -d bin @default.lst
missing type oracle.sql.NUMBER
missing type oracle.sql.CustomDatum
interface required, not *
missing type oracle.sql.DATE
missing type oracle.sql.CustomDatum
interface required, not *
6 errors

I was able to fix the problem by adding the jar, but only through 
these extraordinary means!

Ron Bodkin
Chief Technology Officer
New Aspects of Security
m: (415) 509-2895