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SlickEdit Product Discussion => SlickEdit® => Features and/or Improvements => Topic started by: Marcel on March 05, 2018, 04:54:54 pm

Title: Java support for compiled classes
Post by: Marcel on March 05, 2018, 04:54:54 pm

My Java improvement series.

SE should logically extend its tagging database with information found the jar files of the project's class path (gradle/maven addressed elsewhere).  This is a logical extension only, no data gets transferred into the tagging database.  In addition, SE should include a byte-code decompiler.

Furnished with that new information, SE will be able to

• Resolve import statements for classes
• Resolve import statements for annotations
• Provide auto-complete support for classes, functions and types found in the classpath jars
• Provide meta information such as deprecation flags
• Step into compiled code while debugging, provide synthesized method signatures and local variables

Java still most referenced language https://www.tiobe.com/tiobe-index/ (https://www.tiobe.com/tiobe-index/)