javac command line option to stop compiling after first error found

Question

Sometimes you just do some typo in code but compiler will output dozens of errors, (actually it just fails to compile efter the first typo). So it would be very convenient sometimes to limit the compiler output to first error detected. GCC/Clang will accept -Wfatal-errors, can javac do the same? I am using JDK7 for Windows.

Answer 1

See this answer: https://stackoverflow.com/a/3115546/500478

You can use -Xmaxerrs and -Xmaxwarns to set the maximal number of errors/warnings before javac gives up.