[ashok pappu]

eclipse version 3.0 how do i configure eclipse to using jikes compiler to compile

[Scott Anderson]

Although it’s not a MyEclipse question, I looked on the old eclipse.tools newsgroup and found this for you:

The Eclipse compiler was implemented by OTI, in Java. It has evolved from
the VisualAge for Java compiler (though significantly changed since then),
is tightly integrated with the rest of our Java tooling offer (incremental
builder, code assist, search, etc…). It is either jck1.3a (jdk1.3.1) or
jck 1.4 (jdk1.4) compliant.

The Jikes compiler was written by IBM research people in C++ for validating
the Java language specs (originally). It is now an open source project.
Jikes has its speed for it (C++), I don’t know where it stands in term of
language compliance level, maybe Jikes folks can provide more information
(could not find the information at
http://www-124.ibm.com/developerworks/oss/jikes/index.shtml). Currently, the
only way to use Jikes in Eclipse is to activate it through Ant scripts as a
batch compiler.

In term of compliance, I don’t know where Jikes is, maybe some . The Eclipse
“Anony” <anon_ymous@notahost.org> wrote in message
news:ai2l1e$c3r$1@rogue.oti.com…
>
> What are the similarities and differences between
> the Eclipse Java compiler and IBM’s Jikes compiler?

–Scott
MyEclipse Support

[Mark Walker]

In addition to the above, if you really want to integrate with eclipse yuo can add your ANT build to your project as an external builder, and then (using a text editor) remove the internal java build command.

You won’t get incremental compilation, but eclipse will use the ANT file (and an external compiler) when you select either Rebuild Project or Rebuild All.

NOTE: Of course, managing of the classpath and related syncing of external libraries will be your proble.

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