Re: Kawa payload size in trivial android apps

[Per Bothner <per at bothner dot com>]

On 03/02/2014 07:33 AM, Jamison Hope wrote:
> On Feb 28, 2014, at 6:59 PM, Per Bothner <per@bothner.com> wrote:
>
> > Ideally, the best way for two mixed-language source would be to build on
> > javac. I.e. you write an extension to javac to "calls back" into the Kawa compiler.
> > You'd write wrapper classes that match what javac expects, but that wrap
> > the similar kawac classes.  This would be a non-trivial job, and requires
> > building familiar with but javac internals and Kawa. When I worked on
> > JavaFX Script I used to know my way around javac, but I'm a bit rusty now.
>
> Does stock javac have hooks for this kind of thing already, in which case
> the only thing to do is write the Kawa-specific piece that fits the API,
> or would this be a new feature for javac that we would need to get pushed
> into the JDK sources?

In principle the former: Javac is very "pluggable".  For JavaFX Script 
we extended
various javac classes.  However, we may run into cases that are not well 
tested.
I vaguely remember for JavaFX Script we did have to change various 
methods or fields
from private to protected, and things like that.

If nothing else, it seems a useful "research" project.

I'll bring it up on the jvmlangs list.

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