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Interface Tool

All Known Subinterfaces:: DocumentationTool, JavaCompiler

public interface Tool

Common interface for tools that can be invoked from a program. A tool is traditionally a command line program such as a compiler. The set of tools available with a platform is defined by the vendor.

Tools can be located using ServiceLoader.load(Class).

Since:: 1.6

Methods

run

int run(InputStream in,
        OutputStream out,
        OutputStream err,
        String... arguments)

Run the tool with the given I/O channels and arguments. By convention a tool returns 0 for success and nonzero for errors. Any diagnostics generated will be written to either out or err in some unspecified format.

Parameters:: in - "standard" input; use System.in if null; out - "standard" output; use System.out if null; err - "standard" error; use System.err if null; arguments - arguments to pass to the tool
Returns:: 0 for success; nonzero otherwise
Throws:: NullPointerException - if the array of arguments contains any null elements.

getSourceVersions

Set<SourceVersion> getSourceVersions()

Gets the source versions of the Java™ programming language supported by this tool.

Returns:: a set of supported source versions

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