Java Support APIs
Official

JavaSupportAPIs The Java Support APIs provides basic facilities for getting or supplying information about Java-language source files.

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Description

Java Support APIs

org.netbeans.api.java.classpath
org.netbeans.api.java.queries	Java-specific queries.
org.netbeans.spi.java.queries	Implementations of Java-related queries.

JavaSupportAPIs The Java Support APIs provides basic facilities for getting or supplying information about Java-language source files. It is based on the query pattern so implementations can be supplied from other modules or projects.

What is New (see all changes)?

• Apr 15 '10 Introducing AnnotationProcessingQuery.Result.Trigger

  Modifying AnnotationProcessingQuery.Result.annotationProcessingEnabled() to return a set of triggers on which the annotation processors should be run.

• Mar 4 '10 Introducing AnnotationProcessingQuery.Result.processorOptions

  Adding AnnotationProcessingQuery.Result.processorOptions() to return options passed to annotation processors (-Akey=value).

• Jan 27 '10 Introducing AnnotationProcessingQuery

  Adding AnnotationProcessingQuery return annotation processing options for a given file/folder.

• Oct 18 '09 Introducing JavaClassPathConstants.PROCESSOR_PATH

  Class org.netbeans.api.java.classpath.JavaClassPathConstants is created to hold java specific classpath constants. org.netbeans.api.java.classpath.JavaClassPathConstants.PROCESSOR_PATH constant is created as a key for Java processor path.

• Jun 5 '08 Splitting the java API to independent ClassPath API and the rest of the java API

  The copy of the ClassPath API was used by generic scripting framework, which cannot depend on the java cluster. To remove this copy of the ClassPath API the java API needs to be splitted into the ClassPath API (IDE cluster) and the rest of the java API (java cluster).

Use Cases

The API is widely used by all sorts of IDE modules which need to work with Java sources. They can find Javadoc, unit tests, source level, etc. The SPI is intended mainly for Java platform and library providers, and project type providers, to declare all of this information.

Exported Interfaces

This table lists all of the module exported APIs with defined stability classifications. It is generated based on answers to questions about the architecture of the module. Read them all...

Group of java interfaces

Interface Name	In/Out	Stability	Specified in What Document?
JavaSupportAPIs	Exported	Official	The Java Support APIs provides basic facilities for getting or supplying information about Java-language source files. It is based on the query pattern so implementations can be supplied from other modules or projects.

Implementation Details

Where are the sources for the module?

The sources for the module are in the NetBeans Mercurial repositories.

What do other modules need to do to declare a dependency on this one, in addition to or instead of a plain module dependency?

Nothing.

Read more about the implementation in the answers to architecture questions.