Tool JDK 1.6)

Description

public interface Tool

Common interface for tools that can be invoked from a program.

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public Set<SourceVersion> getSourceVersions ()

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

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

Run the tool with the given I/O channels and 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.
Returns: 0 for success; nonzero otherwise
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
Throws:
- NullPointerException - if the array of arguments contains any {@code null} elements.