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JDT UI/Java8

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Revision as of 12:22, 7 March 2013 by Unnamed Poltroon (Talk) (New page: This page tracks the work in progress to add Java™ 8 support (mainly jsr308 "Type Annotations" and jsr335 "Lambda Expressions") into Eclipse JDT UI. See JDT Core/Java8 for the wo...)

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This page tracks the work in progress to add Java™ 8 support (mainly jsr308 "Type Annotations" and jsr335 "Lambda Expressions") into Eclipse JDT UI. See JDT Core/Java8 for the work in the JDT Core plug-ins.

IMPORTANT NOTE

  • The following lines should be added in all headers of modified files for Java™ 8 implementation:
 * This is an implementation of an early-draft specification developed under the Java
 * Community Process (JCP) and is made available for testing and evaluation purposes
 * only. The code is not compatible with any specification of the JCP.
 *

DOM AST node changes in JLS8

+ AnnotatableType (abstract superclass):
  + annotations (also in subtypes PrimitiveType, ArrayType, SimpleType, QualifiedType, WildcardType)

+ ExtraDimensions
  + annotations

MethodDeclaration:
  +extraDimensions (incl. annotations on extra dimensions)
  +receiverType
  +receiverQualifier
  -thrownExceptions
  +thrownExceptionTypes

SingleVariableDeclaration:
  +varargsAnnotations

TypeParameter:
  +annotations

VariableDeclaration:
  +extraDimensions (also in subtypes SingleVariableDeclaration, VariableDeclarationFragment)

+ LambdaExpression:
  + parentheses
  + parameters
  + body
  + resolveMethodBinding()

For JLS4, the changes were:

+ UnionType
  + types

TryStatement:
  + resources

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