While trying to find an answer to Android Jasper Reporting I found out that there are two other questions to be answered therefor, which I been asked to ask as a question, not a
I succeeded after taking inspiration from source of JavaIDEdroid and realizing that I'm dumb (for a time I tried to uses the compiler with the dexified framework classes on the device - which naturtally could not work).
After i succeeded compiling my Test.java with a copy of ADTs android-jar on sdcard I just had to load the classes with the DexClassLoader.
While informing myselft about how to do that I found this nice article Custom Class Loading in Dalvik which inspired me at least to write this piece of code:
File storage = getDir("all41", Context.MODE_PRIVATE);
System.err.println("copying the android.jar from asssets to the internal storage to make it available to the compiler");
BufferedInputStream bis = null;
OutputStream dexWriter = null;
int BUF_SIZE = 8 * 1024;
try {
bis = new BufferedInputStream(getAssets().open("android.jar"));
dexWriter = new BufferedOutputStream(
new FileOutputStream(storage.getAbsolutePath() + "/android.jar"));
byte[] buf = new byte[BUF_SIZE];
int len;
while((len = bis.read(buf, 0, BUF_SIZE)) > 0) {
dexWriter.write(buf, 0, len);
}
dexWriter.close();
bis.close();
} catch (Exception e) {
System.err.println("Error while copying from assets: " + e.getMessage());
e.printStackTrace();
}
System.err.println("instantiating the compiler and compiling the java file");
org.eclipse.jdt.internal.compiler.batch.Main ecjMain = new org.eclipse.jdt.internal.compiler.batch.Main(new PrintWriter(System.out), new PrintWriter(System.err), false/*noSystemExit*/, null);
ecjMain.compile(new String[] {"-classpath", storage.getAbsolutePath()+"/android.jar", Environment.getExternalStorageDirectory().getAbsolutePath() + "/Test.java"});
System.err.println("calling DEX and dexifying the test class");
com.android.dx.command.Main.main(new String[] {"--dex", "--output=" + storage.getAbsolutePath() + "/Test.zip", Environment.getExternalStorageDirectory().getAbsolutePath() + "/./Test.class"});
System.err.println("instantiating DexClassLoader, loading class and invoking toString()");
DexClassLoader cl = new DexClassLoader(storage.getAbsolutePath() + "/Test.zip", storage.getAbsolutePath(), null, getClassLoader());
try {
Class libProviderClazz = cl.loadClass("Test");
Object instance = libProviderClazz.newInstance();
System.err.println(instance.toString());
} catch (Exception e) {
System.err.println("Error while instanciating object: " + e.getMessage());
e.printStackTrace();
}
The Test.java only contains one method:
public String toString() {
return "Hallo Welt!";
}
To get it running you need the jars jdt-compiler-x.x.x.jar (found in plugins directory of eclipse) and dx.jar (found in directory platform-tools/lib of Android SDK)
Not really hard ;)
And now I will find out what to change in source of JasperReports to get it work on our beloved Android devices :D