@Exported
public interface Plugin
The javac plug-in mechanism allows a user to specify one or more plug-ins on the javac command line, to be started soon after the compilation has begun. Plug-ins are identified by a user-friendly name. Each plug-in that is started will be passed an array of strings, which may be used to provide the plug-in with values for any desired options or other arguments.
Plug-ins are located via a ServiceLoader
,
using the same class path as annotation processors (i.e.
ANNOTATION_PROCESSOR_PATH
or
-processorpath
).
It is expected that a typical plug-in will simply register a
TaskListener
to be informed of events during the execution
of the compilation, and that the rest of the work will be done
by the task listener.
java.lang.String getName()
void init(JavacTask task, java.lang.String... args)
task
- The compilation task that has just been startedargs
- Arguments, if any, for the plug-in