Re: [wtp-releng] Build compiler warnings too aggressive?

[Cameron Bateman <cameron.bateman@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Seems reasonable.  Anyone know the JDT preference option? It's not 
leaping out at me.


--Cam

David M Williams wrote:

> Yes, about a year ago there as a long heated debate on this (in 
> bugzillas and Eclipse newsgroups).
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> There's no good tools for correcting it, but the cure, for the 
> warning, is to use the fully qualified name in the java docs, not the 
> short name that depends on an import.
> And, there is a preference in JDT pages somewhere that controls this 
> behavior for future code you write.
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> I'd prefer we all do that, but am open to be overruled. That is, I'd 
> prefer that we all use fully qualified name in java doc, set our jdt 
> preferences to do that automatically, and clean up old violations of 
> that rule.
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> Is there a problem with that? Or, are you requesting they be turned off?
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> I'd prefer not to have them in the "import" headers, because I _think_ 
> that may "mess up" other tools ... such as
> finding unused dependancies ... it may appear you are dependent on 
> something when you are not. (The JavaDoc dependancy
> is just a "build time" thing ... which is handled differently that 
> runtime dependancies).
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> The JSF team is in the midst of cleaning up code warnings.  I thought I
> had resolved all the warnings caught by the webtools build, but one
> remains that is not caught by Eclipse/JDT at all.  This is the use of
> imported classes only in JavaDocs.  For example,  we have a warning in
> one of our modules as below.  It is true that this class is not used in
> the code but it *is* used in the JavaDoc and generates JavaDoc warnings
> if the import is removed (though it does not break the build).  Indeed,
> Ctrl-Shift-O will add the import back in if I remove it.
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> 2. WARNING in
> /shared/webtools/build-wtp-R2.0-I/workdir/plugins/org.eclipse.jst.jsf.facesconfig.common/src/org/eclipse/jst/jsf/facesconfig/common/widget/StyleCombo.java 
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>    import org.eclipse.swt.SWTException;
>           ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> The import org.eclipse.swt.SWTException is never used
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