RE: [Japi] RuntimeException on the latest japitools against BEA JRockit1.5

[Jeroen Frijters]

Stuart Ballard wrote:
> On 11/9/06, Jeroen Frijters <address@hidden> wrote:
> > This doesn't really address my main issue though. I *like* 
> the fact that
> > Japize also acts as a validator of the structure of the 
> class files (and
> > I also sort of rely on that with ikvm). Now you could 
> certainly argue
> > that that isn't japize's job (it isn't), but it's a darn nice side
> > effect.
> 
> Well, I'd say that for that particular task a much simpler tool would
> be the right one for the job. Suppose you were to add a method
> loadFully() (or whatever) to ClassFile and then write a really simple
> tool that just went through each class in a zip or folder calling
> ClassFile.forName(name).loadFully()...
> 
> Japize already doesn't validate every single class because not every
> class is even included (based on the +/- args) and I certainly
> wouldn't be inclined to make it do more work that isn't needed. But
> bundling a separate validator tool inside Japitools would make perfect
> sense and IMO would help resolve the tension between what Japize's
> task is *intended* to be and what you use it for.

OK. Fair enough. When I have time I'll work on making ClassFile more
lazy.

Regards,
Jeroen