Need reviewer

[Jonathan Gibbons]

NetBeans, and other IDEs that try to do "compilation on the fly", will 
definitely have trouble with these files.

Lesser IDEs, like emacs, could presumably be taught to recognize 
*.java.template as a Java file for Java mode.

-- Jon

Kelly O'Hair wrote:
>
> Mark Reinhold wrote:
>>> Date: Sun, 11 Oct 2009 17:35:31 -0700
>>> From: kelly.ohair at sun.com
>>
>>> 6888701: Change all template java source files to a .java.template 
>>> file suffix
>>>
>>> http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~ohair/openjdk7/jdk7-build-template-6888701/webrev/ 
>>>
>>
>> Most of the files you are renaming in this change are in NIO, and the
>> names of those files were carefully chosen so as to be invalid Java
>> class names -- they all contain at least one dash character.
>>
>> This approach has the advantage that when you visit the files in an
>> editor or IDE they're treated as Java source files without any further
>> effort.  This is a feature, not a bug as claimed in 6888701.
>>
>> I'd like to understand more about the complications in Makefile logic
>> claimed in 6888701.  If this is such a problem then why are we just
>> now getting around to fixing it?
>
> I have been trying to change some of the Makefiles to use the GNU make
> functions and everything is easier when knowing that a file ending in
> .java is really input for javac. Filtering is easier.
>
> We have at least 3 conventions being used for processing java source 
> files:
> *-template.java, *X-*.java, and *.java.template. By far the easiest one
> to deal with in build scripts (make and ant) is the *.template 
> convention.
> I'm just trying to normalize this to one convention that is the easiest
> to deal with in build scripts and for IDEs.
>
> I know these files have been around for ages, and if IDE's treated 
> them as
> valid java sources files back then, I suspect the newer IDE's might have
> figured out by now that they are not java source files.
> NetBeans will let you open any file, and when I open these files with the
> *.java suffix, I get hundreds of error indicators, but when opened as
> *.java.template files, they appear as normal files with no error 
> indications.
> NetBeans doesn't know what these files really are anyway.
>
> The complications in the Makefiles is that every time you want a list of
> java sources from a directory to compile, you have to have a special 
> exclude
> list to remove all these files: X-*.java *-X-*.java *-template.java
> It's a pain, in make files or in ant scripts.
>
> -kto
>
>>
>> - Mark