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Update note about JDT with 3rd party compiler backend (#2813)
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Co-authored-by: Ed Merks <[email protected]>
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mickaelistria and merks authored Feb 12, 2025
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With the Workbench?
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No. The JDT provides a number of sophisticated features including fully
automatic incremental compilation, code snippet evaluation, code assist,
type hierarchies, and hot code replace. These features require special
support found in the workbench Java compiler (an integral part of the
JDT's incremental project builder), but not available in standard Java
compilers.
Not with vanilla JDT. Some features of JDT such as Snippet evaluation do require usage
of the built-in compiler and currently cannot work with another compiler.
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However, note that JDT does provide some mechanisms to allow 3rd-party plugins to
enable an external compiler instead of the built-in one for most features (completion,
selection, search, incremental compilation, and so on) but actual usage of such third-party
compilers is not something that JDT includes nor for which JDT is responsible.
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Where Do Java Packages Come From?
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