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6493690: javadoc should have a javax.tools.Tool service provider installed in tools.jar
Reviewed-by: darcy
| duke@1 | 1 | <body> |
| duke@1 | 2 | |
| duke@1 | 3 | <p> |
| duke@1 | 4 | The Java™ programming language compiler API is a set of interfaces that describes the |
| duke@1 | 5 | functions provided by a compiler. This API has three |
| duke@1 | 6 | main objectives: |
| duke@1 | 7 | </p> |
| duke@1 | 8 | |
| duke@1 | 9 | <ul> |
| duke@1 | 10 | |
| duke@1 | 11 | <li>Allow invocation of a compiler from a program using |
| duke@1 | 12 | standardized interfaces.</li> |
| duke@1 | 13 | |
| duke@1 | 14 | <li>Provide interfaces enabling the compiler to report diagnostics in a |
| duke@1 | 15 | structured way.</li> |
| duke@1 | 16 | |
| duke@1 | 17 | <li>Provide interfaces enabling clients of the compiler to override |
| duke@1 | 18 | how file objects are found. "File objects" is a file |
| duke@1 | 19 | abstraction.</li> |
| duke@1 | 20 | |
| duke@1 | 21 | </ul> |
| duke@1 | 22 | |
| duke@1 | 23 | </body> |
