Re: [platform-releng-dev] improved checking for internal references

[Douglas Pollock <douglas.pollock@xxxxxxxx>]

On Thursday February 17 2005 02:25 pm, Steven Wasleski wrote:
> An idea that has been bouncing around in my head for a little while is that
> we could start with the component.xml because that is what we have the
> tools for now.  At a later date when we start targeting Java 5 VMs instead
> of Java 1.4 VMs, we could create the annotation types we need and write a
> tool to do a one time injection from the component.xml files into the
> source.  If needed we could write a build time script that would do the
> reverse operation.

Part of my objection is that I believe generating this "component.xml" file 
will take a lot of time and be error prone.  Why not write the tool first?

Java 5 Annotations might not work well for Platform/UI.  Please see Bug 80053 
("https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=80053";).



cheers,
d.