Controlling scomp's invocation of javac

[Peter Keller <pk...@globalphasing.com>]

Dear all,

It seems to me that several annoying issues could be dealt with if there was 
a way to provide an arbitrary set of arguments to the invocation of 'javac' 
that is used by scomp to compile the generated Java source. Is anyone 
planing on doing anything along these lines? If not, I'm thinking of having 
a go myself, maybe sometime in July.

What I had in mind was to modify 
org.apache.xmlbeans.impl.tool.CodeGenUtil.externalCompile so that it reads a 
properties-format file with arguments for javac, something like this:

-sourcepath=/path/to/some/sourcefiles:/path/to/some/more/sourcefiles
-bootclasspath=/path/to/some/rt.jar
-g=

and add these to the local 'args' variable before invoking javac. The path 
to this file could be provided by an option to SchemaCompiler. Obviously I 
would need to give some thought to the interaction with the current 
arguments to externalCompile.

Does this sound a reasonable thing to do? I would give my changes back to 
the XMLBeans project of course.

Regards,
Peter.

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