I think javap should display (at least optionally) the
primitive contant values assigned at compilation time to
primitive constant class or interface fields. I think these are part of the
interface and should be displayable. For instance:

	public interface PrimitiveConstant {
	    boolean PRIMITIVE_CONSTANT = true;
	}

or

	public class PrimitiveConstant {
	    public static final boolean PRIMITIVE_CONSTANT = true;
	}

	When I run either of these through javap it will print out
something like:

Compiled from PrimitiveConstant.java
public abstract interface PrimitiveConstant extends java.lang.Object {
    public static final boolean SHOW_IT;
}

	I want it to instead display:

Compiled from PrimitiveConstant.java
public abstract interface PrimitiveConstant extends java.lang.Object {
    public static final boolean SHOW_IT = true;
}

	Even if PrimitiveConstant is a class and I run javap with the -c
option to show me the java bytecodes of the methods in the class, it still
refuses to show the compile-time SHOW_IT constant value.

N/A

When doclet is rewritten (see 4287648) this should be fixed.
  xxxxx@xxxxx   2000-01-18
Because of problems inherent in printing (long) Strings, the feature should only be enabled with an option, such as -constants.
Posted Date : 2008-06-22 16:31:18.0

I agree, this would be very useful. I often see a numeric value 
in a debugger or a database, and I want to coorelate it to a 
static constant defined in a class file. It's easy to write a 
utility to print these values out, but I have to rewrite it for 
each class. This should be incorporated into javap as an 
option.