[Bluej-discuss] BlueJ and the Eclipse compiler

[Stephen Gilbert]

Hi,

I noticed in bluej.defs I could change the compiler to use jikes. I wonder
if it would be possible to
change bluej to use the standalone Eclipse compiler? In my classes, students
start at the
command line, move to BlueJ and end up with Eclipse. I'm experimenting with
moving to
the Eclipse command-line compiler to avoid students having to download the
JDK. The
compiler is about 1.2 MB. It also seems to give better error messages for
beginners than
Javac does. Would this make it possible for BlueJ and/or Greenfoot to be
used without an
installed JDK?

-- Steve
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Stephen Gilbert, Orange Coast College Computer Science
http://csjava.occ.cccd.edu/~gilberts
StephenGilbert at gmail.com
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