Fixed point dependency determination
View Patent ↗A system, method and media for a method for resolving dependencies given a first package and a first type, comprising determining one or more anti-dependencies for the first package; and compiling a first one of the anti-dependencies if at least one of the following is true: 1) the first anti-dependency has a compilation error; and 2) the first anti-dependency depends on a second package wherein the second package that has a second type with the same name as the first type. This abstract is not intended to be a complete description of, or limit the scope of, the invention. Other features, aspects and objects of the invention can be obtained from a review of the specification, the figures and the claims.
1. A method for resolving dependencies given a first package and a first type that is added to the first package, comprising:
determining one or more anti-dependencies for the first package; and
compiling a first one of the anti-dependencies when a shadow type exists for the first type, wherein the shadow type has a same name as the first type and resides in a second package that the first anti-dependency depends on, the second package is different from the first package and the second package has a second type with the same name as the first type.
2. The method of claim 1 , further comprising:
adding the first type to the first package.
3. The method of claim 1 , further comprising:
compiling a second one of the anti-dependencies if at least one of the following is true: 1) the second anti-dependency has a compilation error; and 2) the second anti-dependency depends on a third package wherein the third package that has a third type with the same name as the first type.
4. The method of claim 1 wherein:
a package collection of one or more types that share a common namespace.
5. The method of claim 1 wherein:
a package is a collection of one or more classes.
6. The method of claim 1 wherein:
an anti-dependency is a file that depends on a package.
7. The method of claim 1 wherein:
an anti-dependency is a file that imports a package or is part of the package.
8. The method of claim 1 wherein:
an anti-dependency contains one or more Java programming language statements.
9. The method of claim 1 wherein:
an anti-dependency includes an annotation.
10. A software development tool capable of performing method 1 .
11. A non-transitory machine readable storage medium having instructions stored thereon that when used by one or more processors cause a system to resolve dependencies given a first package and a first type that is added to the first package, by:
determine one or more anti-dependencies for the first package; and
compile a first one of the anti-dependencies when a shadow type exists for the first type, wherein the shadow type has a same name as the first type and resides in a second package that the first anti-dependency depends on, the second package is different from the first package and the second package has a second type with the same name as the first type.
12. A system for resolving dependencies given a first package and a first type that is added to the first package, the system comprising:
a processor;
a memory coupled to the processor that includes components that when executed by the processor causes the processor to perform the following steps:
determining one or more anti-dependencies for the first package; and
compiling a first one of the anti-dependencies when a shadow type exists for the first type, wherein the shadow type has a same name as the first type and resides in a second package that the first anti-dependency depends on, the second package is different from the first package and the second package has a second type with the same name as the first type.
13. The system of claim 12 wherein the one or more components are further capable of performing the following steps:
adding the first type to the first package.
14. The system of claim 12 wherein the one or more components are further capable of performing the following steps:
compiling a second one of the anti-dependencies if at least one of the following is true: 1) the second anti-dependency has a compilation error; and 2) the second anti-dependency depends on a third package wherein the third package that has a third type with the same name as the first type.
15. The system of claim 12 wherein:
a package collection of one or more types that share a common namespace.
16. The system of claim 12 wherein:
a package is a collection of one or more classes.
17. The system of claim 12 wherein:
an anti-dependency is a file that depends on a package.
18. The system of claim 12 wherein:
an anti-dependency is a file that imports a package or is part of the package.
19. The system of claim 12 wherein:
an anti-dependency contains one or more Java programming language statements.
20. The system of claim 12 wherein:
an anti-dependency includes an annotation.