[buckminster-dev] Java Compiler

[Thomas Hallgren <thomas@xxxxxxx>]

Some parts of Buckminster (the jars containing contributed ant tasks) 
are compiled using Ant today. Those tasks will fail when only a JRE is 
installed (i.e. no JDK) since the ant javac task doesn't find the 
compiler. Eclipse provides a great compiler and it would not be hard to 
make that the default.

If I understand correctly, the only thing we need to do is to supply the 
'compiler.build' property with a setting of 
'org.eclipse.jdt.core.JDTCompilerAdapter' and make sure it's on the ant 
internal classpath prior to calling our ant builder.

By doing this by default we would remove the need for an installed JDK 
in order to build. Any objections?

Regards,
Thomas Hallgren