August 11, 2004
J15: an Eclipse plug-in to migrate to the JDK 1.5
I have been converting a lot of code to the new JDK 1.5 constructs recently and I decided it was too tedious, so I wrote a quick Eclipse plug-in to assist me. It's called J15 ("J One Five") and I am happy to announce its first release.
Right now, J15 can convert for loops on arrays and collections but I have quite a few other enhancements in mind which I will disclose as I implement them.
In the meantime, please test it and let me know how it works for you, as I am confident there are quite a few cases that I haven't covered (manipulating a Java Abstract Syntax Tree is fun but it produces very ugly code...).
By the way, you will need a recent Eclipse build to run it (since it needs to support these new constructs). I am currently running N20040806 which passed all the Windows tests.
Posted by cedric at August 11, 2004 10:30 AMSun will send you a letter saying that you have to rename it to be J50 ;)
Posted by: Dion at August 11, 2004 02:26 PMGreat job, Cédric :) Thanks for the contribution...
Posted by: Val at August 11, 2004 11:16 PMWhy aren't you putting all this effort into Workshop? ;)
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