[news.eclipse.tools.jdt] Re: How to extend the Java Compiler in your app

[Jacek Pospychala <jacek.pospychala@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Olivier,
thanks for clarification.
I didn't know ecj.jar is stripped to have even less than jdt.core. I'll 
have to look into it.

Olivier Thomann wrote:
> Jacek Pospychala a écrit :
> > Moutaz,
> > Eclipse Java compiler is in org.eclipse.java.core plugin. From what I 
> It is rather org.eclipse.jdt.core.
>
> > see, there is one compiler class exposed in API: 
> > org.eclipse.jdt.core.dom.CompilationUnitResolver
> This should not be used to simply compile Java code.
>
> > The core compiler stuff is in org.eclipse.jdt.internal.compiler.*, 
> > and it's used by two tools: JavaBuilder - for compiling source code 
> > in Eclipse environment and batch builder, that can be called from 
> > command line. You may take a look how these tools do compiling.
> You can either use the batch compiler or use the JSR199 support.
> For the jsr199 support, you would need the plugin 
> org.eclipse.jdt.compiler.tool and org.eclipse.jdt.core.
> You don't actually need the whole org.eclipse.jdt.core contents. You 
> might want to add the ecj.jar on the classpath of your plugin.
>
> ecj.jar contains all the required types for the batch compiler and the 
> jsr199 support.
>
> Let me know if you need more details.
> --
>
> Olivier