request to upload the standalone eclipse compiler ecj-3.5.jar to maven
repository
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Key: MAVENUPLOAD-2606
URL: http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/MAVENUPLOAD-2606
Project: Maven Upload Requests
Issue Type: Wish
Reporter: Hugues Malphettes
ecj-3.5.jar is a java compiler developed by eclipse by the JDT/core project:
http://eclipse.org/jdt/core/index.php
The eclipse java compiler is commonly used as a drop-in replacement of the
JDK's javac tool.
It has no dependency and is widely used for example by the jsp compiler
"jasper".
The 2005 version is named core-3.1.1.jar and is currently distributed with all
popular app-servers: jetty-hightide, glassfish, jboss etc.
http://repo2.maven.org/maven2/org/eclipse/jdt/core/3.1.1/
ecj-3.5 has multiple advantages over core-3.1.1:
- up to date, support for producing java-1.6 bytecode if necessary.
- smaller than core-3.1.1 that comes with a lot of unused eclipse-only classes.
- when loaded in an OSGi container it does not require eclipse-RCP (see
https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=289406)
jasper now supports ecj-3.5 and will probably recommend using it:
https://jsp.dev.java.net/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=13
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