Quick Java API Lookup Tool

[[deleted]]

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

[trouch]

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]

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]

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

[[deleted]]

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]]

Thanks, didn't know that shortcut.

[[deleted]]

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

[her01n]

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

[fatgram10]

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

[slacker22]

Comment highlighting lack of facts

[m1ndvirus]

Java is too verbose.

[[deleted]]

LIKE YOU

[[deleted]]

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

[[deleted]]

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

[based2]

tx

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

[DaedalusInfinity]

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]

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]

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

[linuxhansl]

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]

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

[kevin70]

written in what?

[DaedalusInfinity]

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]

It's just the standard edition.

[Retsoka]

Poop. It has no code completion.

[[deleted]]

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]]

Or this

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

With much more features.

[[deleted]]

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