langtools and NetBeans

[John Rose]

On Dec 12, 2008, at 4:31 PM, Jonathan Gibbons wrote:

> The patch is a preview, to give folk who use NetBeans for langtools  
> a chance
> to give feedback, before we push this to the main repository,  
> perhaps sometime
> early in January.  Comment and feedback welcome.

I like this patch, since I use NetBeans with increasing frequency and  
enthusiasm.  But I use 6.5, so the old langtools sub-projects do not  
work for me.  With your patch, I can get work done now.

I like it so well I have put it into the mlvm/langtools patch  
repository, with instructions on how to work with javac in NetBeans:
   http://hg.openjdk.java.net/mlvm/mlvm/langtools/rev/6de49f01c9f0

I hope something like this gets into the real langtools repo., so I  
can remove the patch from mlvm.

Configuring my environment to use it was non-trivial: lots of moving  
parts.  I recorded my experiences starting at about line 70 of this  
file:
   http://hg.openjdk.java.net/mlvm/mlvm/langtools/file/tip/meth.txt

Thanks!

-- John