I see two ways of approaching getting some refactoring functionality in JDE:
1) Use the parse information from semantic with perhaps a semanticdb backend for jar and class files using jde-usages. Semantic didn't parse java methd bodies when I last checked so this restricts the kinds of refactoring we can do. This is probably the "right" way to do refactoring but it will take a lot of time before we can do all the refactorings other IDEs provide. 2) Use an external refactoring tool to do the heavy lifting. I've spent some time looking at jrefactory which seems to be frequntly updated and was designed with the object being plugged into a IDE. All the IDEs it is being used with are written in java so I'm not sure how well it will work for us. The refactoring libraries from the eclise project are another option but they seem to be very tightly integrated into their IDE. Here are a list of refactoring operations that jrefactory says it can do : http://jrefactory.sourceforge.net/csrefactory.html I use Extract Method and Rename Method the most. You can use jde-usages as a start to rename a method. I even tried to automate it using a macro but discarded it because jde-usages can only tell you the line on which the method call exists, so if there is another method with the same name called on the line, or of it method name is mentioned in a comment its hard to figure out automatically where the method call is. Extract method, where the IDE converts some code into a method and guess the inputs and outputs, seems much harder. I'm not suggesting that we should choose one of the two approaches, but that we should do both - initially do simpler refactorings using semantic and punt the more complicated global ones to an external tool while we figure out how to do them in emacs. Suraj On Thu, 30 Sep 2004 13:50:45 -0400, Paul Kinnucan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Raul Acevedo writes: > > I know this question comes up at least once a year. I figure it's about > > time to ask again, in case new tools have come up. > > > > How do you do refactoring in Emacs/JDEE? Are there plans to include > > refactoring into JDEE at some point? > > My plan originally was to use xref as a basis for factoring commands. Now it appears > that jde-usages might be a better basis. I need input on what kind > of factoring commands users want. > > Paul > >
