Re: [ jEdit-devel ] CodeAid...

[Jim <jim...@po...>]

At 10:33 PM 9/9/2001 +0100, you wrote:
> > For whatever it's worth, I'm going to be "releasing" a similar tool later
> > today.  It's a java member completion tool, similar to CodeAid, but based
> > on reflection so it doesn't need a database to be setup.  Once I get it
> > uploaded and a quick "howto" page, I'll send another post to the list.
>Really good idea!
>But CodeAid still will have some advantages: you'll never be able to use
>the reflection on large external libraries without loading them (for
>example, servlet API, EJB, JMS ...).
>So Andre (sorry, I did not know that nowadays it's you who maintains
>CodeAid) - please fix it. It is still a very cool thing even after
>SpeedJava announcement...

Well it doesn't really need to load entire libraries, to the extent that a 
class can be loaded without indirectly causing lots of others to be 
loaded.  Subject to that, it otherwise only loads classes as they are 
referenced.  It never goes through entire jars or anything.  So, I don't 
think it's actually too heavyweight.  Don't know if that's what you meant 
or not.

Thanks nevertheless for the encouragement.  Wasn't really meant to replace 
anything, but I had it so i thought I'd share it.

Jim