Deprecate javac in favour of the Java 5 "apt" tool? Follow
http://forums.java.net/jive/thread.jspa?messageID=1402&tstart=0
any thoughts from the JetBrains and IntelliJ-EAP'er's on the above article and how it can be put in action in IDEA?
cheers,
parthi
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Interesting read... I'd say that at a minimum, IDEA should support apt in the list of compilers alongside javac and jikes. This seems simple enough to implement to have it added to IDEA 4.5.x.
I don't know exactly how one would write an apt plugin that can generate compiler errors, but it would be really nice if IDEA could run these plugins at edit-time and mark said errors in the code. I have no idea if this would even be possible with the way apt plugins work though.