Sun classes imported by Derby code

[Rick Hillegas-2]

As an experiment, I built Derby using the Apache Harmony jars instead of
the jdk14 libraries. When I did this, I discovered Derby references to
classes in packages under com.sun.tools. Those reference appear in our
javadoc Taglet classes under java/build/org/apache/derbyBuild/javadoc.
This seems unclean to me. I would welcome advice about how to handle this.

Thanks,
-Rick

[Knut Anders Hatlen]

Rick Hillegas <Richard.Hillegas@...> writes:

> As an experiment, I built Derby using the Apache Harmony jars instead
> of the jdk14 libraries. When I did this, I discovered Derby references
> to classes in packages under com.sun.tools. Those reference appear in
> our javadoc Taglet classes under
> java/build/org/apache/derbyBuild/javadoc. This seems unclean to me. I
> would welcome advice about how to handle this.

Hi Rick,

That does seem to be the documented way[1] to write taglets.
According to Harmony's roadmap[2], they haven't implemented the
javadoc tool yet.

Do the taglets need to be compiled against the JDK 1.4 libraries?
Since they are only used by the build system, I think it should be OK
to compile them against the class libraries of Ant's default JDK (the
one JAVA_HOME points to). In that case, it should work as long as
JAVA_HOME points to a JDK that contains these packages.


[1] http://java.sun.com/javase/6/docs/technotes/guides/javadoc/taglet/overview.html
[2] http://harmony.apache.org/roadmap.html

--
Knut Anders

[Rick Hillegas-2]

Thanks, Knut. This is very helpful. I think you're right that it ought
to be ok to compile the taglets against the current environment since

1) that's the environment which will be used to generate the javadoc
2) the base taglet classes had better be present in that environment or
javadoc-generation will fall over

Thanks,
-Rick

Knut Anders Hatlen wrote:

> Rick Hillegas <Richard.Hillegas@...> writes:
>
>  
>> As an experiment, I built Derby using the Apache Harmony jars instead
>> of the jdk14 libraries. When I did this, I discovered Derby references
>> to classes in packages under com.sun.tools. Those reference appear in
>> our javadoc Taglet classes under
>> java/build/org/apache/derbyBuild/javadoc. This seems unclean to me. I
>> would welcome advice about how to handle this.
>>    
>
> Hi Rick,
>
> That does seem to be the documented way[1] to write taglets.
> According to Harmony's roadmap[2], they haven't implemented the
> javadoc tool yet.
>
> Do the taglets need to be compiled against the JDK 1.4 libraries?
> Since they are only used by the build system, I think it should be OK
> to compile them against the class libraries of Ant's default JDK (the
> one JAVA_HOME points to). In that case, it should work as long as
> JAVA_HOME points to a JDK that contains these packages.
>
>
> [1] http://java.sun.com/javase/6/docs/technotes/guides/javadoc/taglet/overview.html
> [2] http://harmony.apache.org/roadmap.html
>
>