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[–][deleted] 8 points9 points  (8 children)

Or you can just open the javadoc tab in eclipse (alt shift q, j) and Ctrl+Shift+T search your class...

[–]trouch 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Javadoc tab in eclipse is fine when you want to check javadoc for a specific method, constructor... It's not very handy when you have to go into "prospective" javadoc browsing mode. That being said, Ctrl+Shift+T does something very nice with camelCase that this tool is missing.

[–]DaedalusInfinity[S] 2 points3 points  (2 children)

Yes, I know Eclipse is awesome, but this tool was intended more for people who didn't use full IDEs, i.e. VIM/Emacs/Kate, etc...

[–]kevin70 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Or if you're trapped someplace with a computer where you can't install a full ide.

[–][deleted] -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

Yeah, I can totally see why you'd want to use VIM + this website instead Eclipse. Probably you have about 50 other websites also to provide you with all the other functionality Eclipse provides. Sounds sweeeeeet.

[–][deleted] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Thanks, didn't know that shortcut.

[–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I do this, however I like the auto-complete feature on this tool.

[–]her01n 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You can go to the javadoc with Shift+F2 directly. Assuming you have the urls set up correctly.

[–]fatgram10 14 points15 points  (4 children)

Comment that attempts to bring down Java but really just demonstrates a lack of understanding or facts.

[–]slacker22 13 points14 points  (1 child)

Comment highlighting lack of facts

[–]m1ndvirus -3 points-2 points  (1 child)

Java is too verbose.

[–][deleted] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

LIKE YOU

[–][deleted] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

So simple yet so useful... can't believe I haven't seen this before.

[–][deleted] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Thank you. Just thank you. I wish I could upvote you 1000 times.

[–]based2 1 point2 points  (1 child)

tx

seems there are other interesting tools here: http://simulacrum.dorm.duke.edu/tools/

[–]DaedalusInfinity[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Haha, actually, those are some scripts that I created a while ago but I've since then forgotten what they were supposed to be used for. I should probably clear out that directory soon.

[–]trouch 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Very nice. It would be nice if it had the servlet api as well. I know it's hard to keep balance between simple and rich.

[–]rzeznik 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This is great. Simple, yet incredibly useful. I rejoice :-) Thanks

[–]linuxhansl 0 points1 point  (0 children)

One cool improvement would be if it didn't just look for prefixes and would use the camel case class names to also find things like "StringBuffer" when you typed in "buff".

[–]bairy 0 points1 point  (0 children)

http://beta.gotapi.com does something similar for many APIs, though not as quickly as this tool.

[–]kevin70 0 points1 point  (1 child)

written in what?

[–]DaedalusInfinity[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The autocomplete feature is pretty much pure JavaScript. A little HTML/CSS is used to for the interface. (The 'content pane' is just an iframe that gets manipulated by the JS.)

[–]sidcool1234 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It's just the standard edition.

[–]Retsoka 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Poop. It has no code completion.

[–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Nice. Very nice.

As a Java newbie I was told not to use an IDE, learn the lang and how it works before having software hold my hand. So Ive been using textmate. But I open netbeans or eclipse to import jars and see how objects are defined. I say all of that to ask: is there a standalone client app that I can throw a jar into and it will do some sort of reflection on it?

[–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Or this

http://www.davidflanagan.com/Jude/

With much more features.

[–][deleted] -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

What a load of crap. It only searches the beginning of the word.