1.1 --- /dev/null Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 1970 +0000 1.2 +++ b/make/netbeans/apt/README Sat Dec 01 00:00:00 2007 +0000 1.3 @@ -0,0 +1,15 @@ 1.4 +"apt" project README. 1.5 + 1.6 +This project is for working on the annotation processing tool (apt) 1.7 +in the OpenJDK langtools component. 1.8 + 1.9 +The tool was provided in Java 1.5, but has been superceded by new 1.10 +features in the compiler (javac) in Java 6. apt itself is now 1.11 +deprecated, and any further devlopment on it is strongly discouraged. 1.12 + 1.13 +The main class for the tool is com.sun.tools.apt.Main. 1.14 + 1.15 +NetBeans 5.0 or later is required and sufficient to use this 1.16 +project, and others in the OpenJDK langtools component. 1.17 +This is different from other projects in OpenJDK, which 1.18 +require version 6.0 or later.