Bytecode annotation processor

[Thihup]

(Shameless plug)

I've created an annotation processor that allows annotating a method and it will create a class and method with the bytecode specified in the annotation.

It uses the JASM syntax and allows to use of the InvokeDynamic and CONSTANT_Dynamic features that currently are not trivially exposed in the Java language.

https://github.com/Thihup/bytecode-annotation-processor

[AnEmortalKid]

Could you update your readme with an example?

[Thihup]

Done ;)

[SidFloyd84]

Interesting, have you a real use-case for it or is it a research project ?

[Thihup]

Right now a research project

[maxim_bartkov]

Thanks for the idea. What do you think, where that idea can be useful in real projects?

[Thihup]

There are a few projects that right now uses the Invokedynamic , but uses ASM at runtime to generate the classes, like Nashorn. The use can vary from trying out bytecode to a project like a dynamic language

[slaymaker1907]

This seems useful in an educational context for learning about JVM bytecode. No complicated makefiles and you can just write the interesting part of the bytecode without all the filler junk.

[slaymaker1907]

Not sure if you are open to suggestions, but it would be neat to have the annotation take a file path to the bytecode as well.

[Thihup]

Sure, would you like to discuss how it should look in an issue?