Source file launcher - Handling of pre-compiled classes of the source file

[Jaikiran Pai]

Hello Peter,


On 14/09/18 1:03 PM, Peter Levart wrote:
>
> The check for main class is performed after compilation (which
> actually produces the main class name).
>
> I think it would be possible to check for all classes compiled from
> the source file after compilation without to much complication. The
> compilation produces classes and stores them into a Map<String,
> byte[]>. The keySet() of that map is a Set of compiled class names.
> Each of them could be tested via .getResource() invoked upon the
> application class loader. The error could even point to the URL of the
> conflicting class file that way...
>

Thank you for moving this to the correct mailing list. Thanks for those
details about how it's done and what can be done to improve this. Should
I report this as an enhancement request at bugs.java.com? I don't have
access to the OpenJDK JIRA for creating this request there.

-Jaikiran