Re: [jdt-core-dev] Current state of BETA_JAVA8

[Srikanth S Adayapalam <srikanth_sankaran@xxxxxxxxxx>]

> From: Rabea Gransberger <rgransberger@xxxxxx>
> Sent by: jdt-core-dev-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx

For comparison, I don't know whether you are looking
to compare eclipse as an IDE with other environments
in which javac plugs in or you mean ECJ vs javac.

For the latter, a good starting point would be to
look at all the optional diagnostics that are configurable
as error/warning/ignore from under Window+Preferences
or
equivalently the help page that shows all the compiler
options.
 
> Could you detail for which area bug reports are
welcome?

For 308, the compiler could be tested for supporting
type
annotations in all new annotatable locations, that
only
annotations with suitable target type meta annotations
are
allowed etc.

For 335, the compiler could be tested for accepting
lambdas
and method/constructor references, default methods
etc in the
allowed locations and that various error scenarios
are
indeed caught.

Given the missing pieces, it would only make sense
to try
"negative tests" - the ones that trigger
some error and
are supposed to be rejected by the compiler - by the
next 
(internal) milestone date of March 31st, we expect
to have 
many more things testable.

Srikanth.