Re: dependency scanner

Lew wrote:
> Mike Schilling wrote:
>> jolz wrote:
>>>> I am looking for a class/program that will scan a .java file for
>>>>  im****ts (recursively) to discover which ones need to be rebuilt.
>>>> This is close to GNU's makedepend or cook's c_incl.
>>> You didn't consider im****t x.y.* and cl***** in the same package.
>>
>> And the use of fully qualified named with no im****t.
>
> Given that 'im****t' is just syntactic sugar for FQNs, any dependency
> analysis tool would only use FQNs for its analysis, I should think.

Certainly.  But the OP was suggesting a tool that scanned the .java 
file lexically for im****ts, and that would fail to find

    p1.p2.p3.class1 c = null;

Personally, I'd build a dependency tool that scanned the .class file, 
not the .java file.  (If there is no .class file, you don't need to 
know anything about dependencies to realize that the .java file needs 
to be recompiled.)  The bytecode has everything you need, and there is 
lots of open-source code out there to help you parse it.