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even though Code Guide 5 is better to write code than Intellij IDEA 3 with its unbelievable-until-you-try instantaneous incremental compiler there are some small changes that would greatly improve CG5 usefulness:

organize imports (Ctrl-O) should give choice when class can be imported from multiple packages
add extended completion (Ctrl-Space?) that would allow to lookup classes that are not yet imported. right now i have to write class name from memory and then do Ctrl-O as thanks to Ctrl-O i have no longer import * declarations ...
dependencies between projects: so i do not need to have long list of all projects source trees but instead can say current project depends on project Foo and Bar and when CG5 compiles current project it will check dependencies and compile a dependent project if needed and then add automatically to CLASSPATH dependent project .class output (and related libraries)
project settings/classpath management: needs ability to add multiple source tree or jar files AT ONCE!!!

created sat nov 11 2002 11am cst [2002/11/11 CST] permalink

one of dream J* features already provided by minilogger

in James Strachan blog he writes about features to add to Java to compete with C# including thisClass and uses example of Logger:

A constant for the current class instance

We have this but why not a thisClass?

Its a PITA to have to cut and paste class names when they could easily be a compile time constant. e.g.
public class Foo {
    private Logger log = LogFactory.getLog( thisClass );
instead of
    private Logger log = LogFactory.getLog( Foo.class );
which can lead to cut-and-paste errors. This is a common issue with using static methods in a generic way.

This is a very trivial change.

and this is already solved by minilogger where you can write

    private Logger log = LogFactory.getLog();

and miniLogger can do it now: it will guess current thisClass from context. without changes to language to have thisClass

created mon nov 11 2002 7pm cst [2002/11/11 CST] permalink

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