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Standalone JDT core packages - ASTParser and Compiler outside the SDK? [message #740970]

Wed, 19 October 2011 03:51

ashwin.jayaprakash

Messages: 2
Registered: October 2011

Junior Member

I was reading this article about using Eclipse JDT Core's AST parser and compiler - programcreek.com/2011/01/a-complete-standalone-example-of-astparser.

I downloaded org.eclipse.jdt-3.7.1.zip but even this massive 24MB file does not have all the requisite dependencies to run a standalone ASTParser demo. In that article above, the author packaged the dependencies and has made it available on his own:

org.eclipse.core.contenttype.jar
org.eclipse.core.jobs.jar
org.eclipse.core.resources.jar
org.eclipse.core.runtime.jar
org.eclipse.equinox.common.jar
org.eclipse.equinox.preferences.jar
org.eclipse.jdt.core.jar
org.eclipse.osgi.jar

Are there any plans to provide a small footprint package like the Batch Compiler to include ASTParser too?

It would be a nice as this looks like the cleanest and best maintained Java AST parser compared to ASM, BCEL, JavaAssist etc.

Also, I do not see any compiler or JDT packages on the 4.x download page? Have these builds been suspended for 4.x?

Thanks,
Ashwin.

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Re: Standalone JDT core packages - ASTParser and Compiler outside the SDK? [message #741067 is a reply to message #740970]

Wed, 19 October 2011 06:37

Satyam Kandula

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Registered: July 2009

Senior Member

As of now, they are no such plans. You could file an enhancement request and if you could provide a patch, that will be great.

JDT packages are same for a 4.x and it's equivalent 3.x and hence they are not on the 4.x download page.

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