Why does a JBuilder build process tend to infinte?

Question

Hi, friends,
I have used JBuilder (4, 5) to rebuild a project which contains about 2000 java files, a lot of inner classes and cross references.
I found that the rebuild process did not terminate but continued to compile until it met a non-sence error after compiling about 12000 java files. So it compiled more than once some files.
With Together J, I did not meet such a problem.
Do you have any solution or explaination?
Regards,
Youbin

Answer 1

Get on your command line and start duplicating the javac
invocation that the IDE uses. I think that JBuilder puts a status
window up (optionally, of course) to show what javac commands
it's running. Run those javac commands manually. If it breaks
on a really big line, then break it down to find out exactly where
it is croaking. Example: if it croaks on
javac -blah -blah2 ... path/to/1.java path/to/2.java. path/to/3....
then break that into
javac -blah -blah2 ...
javac -blah -blah2 path/to/1.java
javac -blah -blah2 path/to/3...
If for whatever reason (e.g. truncation) you can't find out the
exact commands it runs, then you need to read up on the rules
JBuilder uses to figure it out for yourself (it's classpath, default
javac options, etc.).