[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