Re: mauve results posted nightly

[Stuart Ballard]

Brian Jones wrote:
> Brian Jones <address@hidden> writes:
>
> Sadly it appears I'm having trouble producing a classpath.japi.  Jode
> appears to use reflection to load some classes during class reading
> which is making it difficult to use something like Sun's JDK to
> produce the files and I don't have enough RAM to use Kissme on the
> whole thing.

Do you have evidence that the reflection codepaths are actually being 
used? I know that Jode contains code to do that, but as far as I know it 
shouldn't actually ever happen when making a japi of java.*, as long as 
all the java.* classes are in the zipfiles that you pass to japize on 
the commandline.

(there is a good reason for keeping it there, though: consider the case 
when you're japizing, say, javax.servlet. You only want to pass the 
servlet jar on the commandline, but Jode still needs to be able to find 
all the superclasses, including java.lang.Object, a bunch of stuff from 
java.io, etc. In those cases it's legit to use reflection, because the 
classes you're loading by reflection are irrelevant to the API you're 
japizing)

Incidentally, that code in Jode hasn't changed ever since I first 
started using Jode back in 0.8 or so - so if there's a problem, it's 
been in every version of japitools since then (including 0.9 which 
you're already using... :) ).

Stuart.


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