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[DrJava] Development Release

[Charles R. <cr...@ri...>]

   A new development release of DrJava is now available, including several 
significant features added in Rice's Comp 312 ("Program Engineering") 
course this spring.  These include:

  - The ability to use the Interactions Pane in the context of a breakpoint 
in the debugger.  The user can view and modify any variables or fields that 
are in scope, or call any visible methods.  (Note: fields and methods must 
be prefixed by "this.", such as "this.x" or "this.foo(3)".)

  - Support for generating and viewing Javadoc HTML documentation for a 
program, through a button on the toolbar.

  - Automatic, Emacs-style file backups (eg. Foo.java~).

  - The ability to search backwards through a document.

  - Improved comment indenting.


   Note that the new debugger and Javadoc features are still early in their 
development, and they will be refined in upcoming releases.  Please try 
them out and let us know any problems that you have!

Thanks,
Charlie

[DrJava] Development Release

[Charles R. <cr...@ri...>]

   drjava-20030520-1527 has just been released, which includes the new 
Interactions Preprocessor framework (the last of the big projects from this 
year's Comp 312).  The preprocessor currently adds support for generic 
types and syntax error highlighting to the Interactions Pane, and it will 
allow us to easily support better error messages and our own type checker 
in the future (along with many other features we're only starting to 
consider).  Give it a try from the link below!

http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=44253&release_id=160794

   Many thanks to the developers in 312 for their work on DrJava!  We've 
accomplished quite a bit this spring to help DrJava mature.

   On a related note, summer development is starting this week, so emails 
will likely start to pick up again.  We're happy to keep any or all of you 
on the list if you want to know what's going on or continue contributing, 
but if you want to be taken off the list now that the course is over, just 
send me an email.

Thanks,
Charlie

[DrJava] Development Release

[Charles R. <cr...@ri...>]

   A new development release of DrJava is now available, including 
several significant bug fixes to the debugger and Javadoc support. 
Also, the JSR-14 v2.0 compiler from Sun is now supported, allowing 
developers to compile DrJava with JSR-14 v2.0 and users to write their 
own programs in DrJava with JSR-14 v2.0.

   Note that the Interactions Pre-processor has temporarily been 
disabled in this release, due to a bug (750605, where qualified class 
names break in the Interactions Pane).  This means that generics are not 
currently supported in the Interactions Pane.  This support will return 
in one of the next development releases.

   Please give this new build a try and let us know if you have any 
trouble with it!

Charlie