[DrJava] Kickstart for dynamic help?

[Peter C. <pe...@ce...>]

Hi again all, it's been a while.

Thought I'd drop a note about a project that might be helpful for 
implementing dynamic help (CodeSense-style auto-completion) in DrJava:

<http://qdox.codehaus.org/index.html>

QDox provides a reduced model of a source file designed for high-speed 
code generation and documentation.  It appears to be a high-reputation 
project -- with a compatible Apache-like license.  I haven't played 
with it yet myself, but I'm guessing that they've had more time to 
optimize performance than we have.  It's intended for static usage, 
rather than within a dynamic editor context, but this is an advantage 
for dealing with large projects.  Dynamic help could use QDox for files 
that are not loaded in editors and augment it with dynamic data for the 
few files open at a given time.  With a bit of cleverness, the static 
results could be cached, indexed, and updated when files change outside 
of DrJava.

--
Peter