Details
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Improvement
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Status: Open
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Major
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Resolution: Unresolved
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V1Alpha, V1Beta, v1m1, 1.0, 1.0.1
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Description
The <apt> ant task is built on top of the built-in <javac> task, which includes a "fork" attribute enabling in-proc invocation of the compiler. Currently, the apt task ignores this attribute and will always launch the apt executable in a seperate process.
The Javac ant task has a pluggable architecture for invoking different compilers and already has support built in for the various jdk compilers, jikes, sj, etc.
I think doing this would only involve writing one of these CompilerAdaptor classes for in-proc APT invocations, then modifying AptTask to configure it.
Sample compiler adaptors can be found in the ant source distribution under src/main/org/apache/tools/ant/taskdefs/compilers.