Inside Javac Types, symbols and tables

Friday Mar 20, 2009

It's been a while since my last post on diagnostic formatters. Since then nothing much has changed, at least in the surface; the compiler still generates the same error messages it used to; but under the hood a lot has changed - the output might look the same but the javac diagnostic subsystem is now taking advantage of a number of goodies provided by the new diagnostic formatter hierarchy - which I'll try to show you in this post.[Read More]