On ecj and @Override annotations for interface methods

Mark Wielaard mark at klomp.org
Fri Sep 19 03:17:07 PDT 2008


Hi Dalibor,

On Fri, 2008-09-19 at 11:57 +0200, Dalibor Topic wrote:
> Mark Wielaard wrote:
> > On Thu, 2008-09-18 at 07:03 -0700, Joseph D. Darcy wrote:
> >   
> >> The class file format changes for JDK 6 are documented in JSR 202, 
> >> "Java(TM) Class File Specification Update":
> >> http://www.jcp.org/en/jsr/detail?id=202
> >>     
> >
> > Thanks, but those documents don't seem to be public. Are they also
> > publicly available without the non-free license click-through? 
> No, as far as I can tell.

Hmmm, that puts us in a somewhat awkward position then. Are there any
plans on a resolution to this issue of not having free specification
terms?

We could reverse engineer the spec from the GPLed code. But that seems
not very productive.

Thanks,

Mark




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