Re: japize

[Nic Ferrier]

Stuart Ballard <address@hidden> writes:

> Brian Jones wrote: 
> >  
> > I feel really dumb for thinking I had to use the 1.1 JVM to get this.   
>  
> With very old versions of japize, you did: it used to use reflection. I  
> only just removed that option entirely, although it's been "deprecated"  
> for ages... it gave unreliable output because reflection can't tell you  
> whether a field is a compiletime constant, even if it's static and  
> final. It also had a nasty habit of starting up AWT toolkit threads,  
> which meant that you needed a System.exit() at the end, and using tons  
> of memory because classes loaded by the system classloader are never gc'd. 
>  
> > Btw, there are entirely too many bytecode libraries out there... Jode, 
> > gnu.bytecode, Apache's version of the same, and on and on... anyone 
> > know what the best GPL and BSD compatible ones are? 

I'm surprised you ask the question Brian. We should use
gnu.bytecode. It's GPLed and it's very good at what it does.


Nic