Re: dependency scanner

On Sun, 11 May 2008 11:03:34 -0400, "Aryeh M. Friedman"
<aryeh.friedman@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote, quoted or indirectly quoted someone
who said :

>I am looking for a class/program that will scan a .java file for im****ts 

Im****ts are not sufficient since you can have fully qualified names in
the source text.

Further im****ts such as im****t javax.swing.* brings in much more than
you would actually need.

If you scanned the class files, you would miss new cl***** referenced
since the last compile.

So that means you have to scan source and parse it.  JavaC can
probably do that faster than you can.

I think you are better off to:

1. use ANT so Javac does not need to reloaded for multiple compiles.

2. just feel the whole shebang on the command line and let JavaC
figure out what needs to be recompiled.

3. from time to time do a clean compile (erase all class files), and
certainly before any release.
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