Interest in Java Compiler API based compiler

[marschall]

I have been working on a compiler based on the built-in JSR 199 JavaCompiler API. This has the advantage that anybody deploying on a JDK (since Java 9 there is more JRE) or has the java.compiler module needs no external dependency. There is also an EJC based implementation.

I would be willing to create a PR and donate the code. The code has only received minimal testing.

[dadza]

A JSR 199 based report compiler would be a useful and convenient feature for JasperReports. We did consider it at some point, but if I recall correctly we found something that was not working as we expected it.

Thank you for the contribution.

[marschall]

@dadza do you know what caused issues?

[dadza]

It was a long time ago, but I think the problem was that we didn't find a way to have the compiler resolve classes from the context classloader, which is something that the ECJ based report compiler supported. That's not a mandatory feature though.