Hi all,
A new beta release of the JDE is available for downloading at the
JDE website.
http://sunsite.auc.dk/jde/
This release introduces context-sensitive help for Java classes. See
release notes below for details.
JDE users, Phillip Lord and David Ponce, contributed significantly to this
release. Thanks, Phil and David.
As always, your feedback is appreciated.
Regards,
Paul
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JDE 2.1.6beta3 Release Notes
This releases adds context-sensitive help for class names. To
use this facility, first customize the variable jde-help-javadoc-dirs
to specify a list of the directories containing javadoc class
documentation on your system. Once you have done this, typing
C-c C-v C-h causes the JDE to display the javadoc for the class
at point in the current buffer. The command uses the browser that you
have specifed with Emacs browse-url package to display the
class documentation. The default browse-url browser is Netscape.
See the browse-url documentation for information on specifying
another browser, such as w3. Thanks to Phillip Lord <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
for reviewing and enhancing the code for this command.
This release includes enhancements to the jde-find-and-import
command, which imports the class whose name appears at point in the
current buffer. The command now has a customization variable
jde-wiz-insert-excluded-packages-regexp that allows you to prevent
specified classes from being considered for import into a buffer.
This variable is useful if the same class name is declared in
multiple packages and you only want some of the classes to be
considered for import. If the jde-find-and-import command finds
multiple import candidates in your classpath, it now prompts you
to choose a class instead of silently importing all the candidates.
Thanks to Phillip Lord <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> for providing these
enhancements.
This release also fixes a bug in the Java code used by the
jde-find-and-import command. As a result, you no longer need
to include the core JDK 1.2 classes, i.e., rt.jar, in your classpath.
Thanks to [EMAIL PROTECTED] for providing this fix.
