Re: [jdee-devel] functionality development

[Thomas F. <tfi...@fc...>]

I feel there is important functionality missing in jdee. I am getting 
hammered almost every day by people at work who complain that I dont use 
Eclipse or IntelliJ, and they are to a certain extent right. Jdee is 
missing essential functionality, that would make me more productive.
So what I want to do is implement the functionality I need to be more 
efficient.

I havent any ide tools that much so I dont have a complete list of 
needed improvements, but the majort things my IDE must support is the 
following.

First of all I want better documentation of jdee, so I would like to 
reorganise and update the documentation. Plus I want to make it w3c 
compatible, since it does not work in Opera and is a little outdated.
If anybody has any input on that, please let me know.

Here is a longer list of primary functionality I am missing. Some of it 
probably exists, but I have not found it yet and some things just dont 
exists in jdee yet.

The basic stuff is the following:

- Better access and overview of all resources included in a project: src 
files, test src, build scripts, config files, libraries etc. The 
Speedbar provides some of this but its not user friendly enough and does 
  not include enough.
   - Essentially I want something like what eclipse has, the directory 
tree on the left side, which lists everything included in the project.
     It gives easy access to any resource in the project, independent of 
which directory its in and how complicated the name is.
     - Another solution could be something that search the entire 
project  or something.
- Better movement between buffers and resouces
   - In eclipse there are window panes, that allows you to easily find 
one of your many current windows.
   - In jdee there is only buffers and they have to be selected by 
typing the name of the buffer, every time you want to switch. it does 
not have a good history function so it takes up to 20 seconds to switch 
to another buffer than the previous one.
- Better code completion, one that is faster, more accurate and, last
   but not least, more user-friendly. It should also support completing
   all included libraries etc.
- Better compile cycle support, the
	whole code - compile - fix-bug - run
   cycle. It is probably there but I havent figured out how to set it up.

The more advanced stuff is:

- refactoring support,
   - mainly renaming and moving methods, attributes,
- code wizards
   - which help automate creating classes for specific purposes in the
     program. I know there is some support for it, but I feel its not
     complete.
   - what I specifically want is a function that does all the mundane
     operations related to creating, or including, a class, adding it
     to the project, storing it in the right directory/package etc. etc.
   - additionally help create other mundane methods or classes one needs,
     e.g. enum classes, parameter classes etc.
- javadoc access that works in all browsers

finally I want all of this packaged into an install file that sets 
eveything up for me, easily, without a lot of reading and manual 
configuring.

There is probably more but these are the most important things.

regards

thomas


Eric M. Ludlam wrote:
> Could you explain in more detail what you want to do?  The point of
> Semantic is to parse code at a detailed level, and provide tags that
> are not just a name, but name, parent class, inheritance type,
> arguments, datatype, and much more.
> 
> Exuberant ctags can do the same.
> 
> Eric
> 
>>>> Thomas Finneid <tfi...@fc...> seems to think that:
>> Hi
>>
>> I know, but I was not asking about command completion though.  I was 
>> asking about tags etc. which requires code parsing, in similar fashion 
>> to command completion. Eric mentioned BeanShell, I dont know much about 
>> it but maybe I misunderstood.
>>
>> regards
>>
>> thomas
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