modules.config

[Jonathan Gibbons]

Mandy Chung wrote:
> On 03/15/10 15:06, Jonathan Gibbons wrote:
>>
>> I see deprecated.tools contains old javac -- I believe rmic still 
>> uses old javac, so you might want to consider if you want rmic to 
>> depend on all this deprecated cruft.
>
> We haven't done much in investigating the dependencies in the tools 
> (including rmic) area.  I did wonder if rmic would not depend on the 
> oldjava one day.   Since it still uses old javac, I'll move the old 
> javac classes to rmic module.
>
> Mandy

Ideally, rmic would be rewritten as an extension to standard javac, 
using the JSR 199 and JSR 269 API. However, I don't see anyone in line 
able and willing to do it :-(

-- Jon