running Java applications within kaffe (Re: [kaffe] shutdownHook changes broke the build)

[Dalibor Topic]

Dalibor Topic wrote:
> hi Guilhem,
> 
> I've just checked in a patch that fixed the remaining compilation problems for
> me. It now builds fine for me, but the shutdown hook test still fails. 
> 
> My patch changed the compile method of kaffe/tools/compiler/Compiler_kjc and
> Compiler_pizza classes to return false only when an exception occurs. But I
> don't think that kjc or pizza always throw an exception before they fail to
> compile some code, so my implementation of compile() smells funny ;) On the
> other hand, I don't think there is a way to get the exit codes of applications
> ra within kaffe as their calls to Runtime.exit() should shutdown the whole
> virtual machine.
> 
> The apperently simple, but slow & fat way out is to just use Runtime.exec to
> start another instance of a JVM. What do you think?

I'll check in a patch that delegates running of kjc & pizza to another 
VM instance through Runtime.exec, since that seems to be the sane thing 
to do ;)

cheers,
dalibor topic