ANN: JDE 2.2.7 available at ...

Tue May 22 23:15:00 GMT 2001

http://jde.sunsite.dk/
JDE 2.2.7
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* PLEASE READ *
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* This release requires semantic 1.4beta5 (or later), *
* speedbar 0.13 (or later), and eieio-0.15 or eieio-0.16. You *
* can obtain all three packages at *
* http://cedet.sourceforge.net *
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* Note: This release does not work with eieio-0.17beta1. *
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* This release also requires avltree.el, which is part of the *
* elib 1.0 package. You can obtain elib at the JDE web site *
* in compressed tar ( http://sunsite.auc.dk/jde/elib.tar.gz ) *
* or zip ( http://sunsite.auc.dk/jde/elib.zip ) format. *
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* Updated the JDE to use the latest version of the semantic 
 package (semantic 1.4beta5), which significantly speeds
 parsing of Java source buffers.
 Thanks to David Ponce for the extensive changes to
 the Classes and Javadoc generator code required to
 permit this update.
* Changed jde-run mode into a full-fledged mode,with its own
 keymap, derived from comint mode. This avoids polluting
 other comint modes with jde-run specific keybindings and
 fontification.
* JDEbug now reinitializes various variables whenever you start
 a debug session. Previously restarting JDEbug after certain
 errors, for example, failure to launch a process, would require
 restarting Emacs.
* Force the native Windows version of XEmacs to use forward
 slashes as the directory separator (see directory-sep-char)
 when generating paths for use in JDE functions.
* The implement interface wizard now accepts unqualified 
 interface names. If the wizard finds more than one interface
 of the same name on jde-global-classpath, it prompts you to
 select one of the interfaces to implement.
* The class buffer and inner class buffer templates now 
 generate skeletal implementations of intefaces that a class
 implements.

 Thanks to <jlopez@cellexchange.com>.
* Adds JDE->Find (M-x jde-find, C-c C-v C-f) command. This
 function recursively searches through your source directories
 looking for matches to a regular expression that you
 specify. The command requires that the Unix grep and find
 utilities exist in the Emacs command path. The Cygwin Unix
 emulation package provides Windows versions of these utilities.
 Thanks to "Guillaume Berche" <guillaume.berche@eloquant.com>
JDE 2.2.7beta11
* The Override Method wizard no longer requires that the class
 overriding the method be compiled first. The only 
 requirement is that the parent of the class overriding
 the method be compiled and exist on the classpath.
* Adds a new command, JDE->Project->Auto Switch 
 (M-x jde-toggle-project-switching), that toggles project
 context switching on or off.

 This command enables you to turn off project switching 
 temporarily, for example, when you want to diff or copy 
 code from one project to another.
* jde-lib-directory-name can now be a regular expression
 that matches the name of directories that contain zip
 or jar files.
* JDEbug now updates the local variables display and stack 
 navigation menu when the debuggee process stops at a watchpoint.
* The JDEBug watchpoint command now defaults to the field at point 
 and to "all" as the program suspension policy when a field 
 is accessed or modified.
* Note: the following change never made it into the previous
 release because of a typo.
 JDEbug no longer sets the priority of the thread that 
 reads debuggee standard input from Emacs. Previously
 JDEbug set the priority of this thread to the highest
 allowed. There is no input from Emacs on app launch so
 the read operation performed by this thread blocks.
 Perhaps setting it to top priority leads
 to a deadlock on some systems.
* This release incorporates the following improvements to
 jde-import-kill-extra-imports:
 - jde-import-kill-extra-imports now refreshes the buffer's 
 parse cache. This fixes a bug where successive calls to the 
 function would incorrectly remove imports. 
 - jde-import-kill-extra-imports now removes fully qualified 
 imports that are not referenced in the code.
 Thanks to "Javier Lopez" <jlopez@cellexchange.com> for
 these improvements.
JDE 2.2.7beta10
* Bug fix: JDE no longer overwrites local version of 
 after-change-functions. Thanks to David Ponce.
* The following changes are stabs in the dark at trying
 to solve the JDEbug application launch hangup problem that
 some users experience.
 - This release sets a limit (15 seconds) to the time that 
 JDEbug waits for Emacs to connect to the socket used to 
 interface Emacs to the standard I/O of the debuggee process.
 Some users find that JDEbug hangs when trying to launch
 a debuggee application. The hang appears to occur in the
 process of setting up the debuggee I/O interface. If the
 hangup is caused by Emacs being unable to connect to the
 SIO socket, this should at least allow the debug session
 to continue, though without the standard I/O interface.
 - JDEbug no longer sets the priority of the thread that 
 reads debuggee standard input from Emacs. Previously
 JDEbug set the priority of this thread to the highest
 allowed. There is no input from Emacs on app launch so
 the read operation performed by this thread blocks.
 Perhaps setting it to top priority leads
 to a deadlock on some systems.
* Bug fixes to project file facility contributed by Nick 
 Sieger:
 - Project files no longer quote variable values twice.
 - Save project command no longer incorrectly attempts to
 use path of a file in the project root directory for 
 the path of the directory.
JDE 2.2.7beta9
* Fixed regression bug in context-sensitive class help function
 that caused the help not to work for docsets specified by URLs.
* Bug fix: JDEbug. The JDE now correctly parses messages from
 JDEbug that contained backslashes. This eliminates hanging
 in some cases.
 Note: it's possible, though improbable, that this bug
 causes the JDEbug startup problems that some users are 
 experiencing. If you have experienced the hang on startup
 problem, please let me know whether the new release makes
 any difference.
* Bug fix: JDEbug. The local variables buffer is now able 
 to display a char variable whose value is a backslash.
JDE 2.2.7beta8
* Improvements to syntax coloring contributed by David Ponce:
 - All extra fontification added by jde-java-font-lock has a specific
 face. So there is less font-lock implementation dependencies,
 greater flexibility to setup a color theme, and fontification can
 be kept consistent across Emacs flavors. Notice that this change
 may require to redo some face customization.
 - For convenience all specific jde-java-font-lock faces are in the
 customization group `jde-java-font-lock-faces' which is a sub group
 of `font-lock-highlighting-faces' (Emacs) or `font-lock-faces'
 (XEmacs).
 - Better fontification of numbers and imported package names.
 - When used interactively the command
 `jde-java-font-lock-setup-keywords' automatically update
 fontification of all Java buffers. This is very useful when you
 change your API file for example!
 - The `jde-setup-syntax-coloring' is greatly enhanced. On Emacs, it
 takes care of the current `global-font-lock-mode' setting. Also, it
 no more use `font-lock-defaults-alist' (which is an obsolete
 variable on Emacs 21) but the preferred `font-lock-defaults' way to
 setup fontification.
 - Finally, jde-java-font-lock works in java-mode too and it can be
 used standalone if needed.
* Extended support for relative path, environment variable substitution, 
 etc., to all JDE paths. 

 Thanks to Nick Sieger for this enhancement.
* XEmacs compatibility fix: pass nil third argument to local-variable-if-set-p.
 Thanks to Nick Sieger.
JDE 2.2.7beta7
* jde-help-find-javadoc now uses url-file-exists (from the w3
 package) if it is in your load-path. Otherwise, it uses
 wget.
 Thanks to Knut Wannheden <wannhedenk@post.ch> and 
 klaus.berndl@sdm.de for this fix.
* jdb interface has been fixed to work around JDK 1.3 bug
 that causes the jdb command prompt to sometimes appear in
 the wrong place in jdb output.
 Thanks to Andy Bennett <andrew.bennett@ericsson.com> 
 for this fix.
* Fixed bug in jde-package-get-directories-in-classpath 
 that caused it to return t instead of a list when the 
 classpath contained ".".
* If'ed out fontifying exception stack trace in run buffer
 when running in XEmacs. This is temporary until I can code 
 an alternative to font-lock-add-keywords, which XEmacs does 
 not support.
* The JDE now replaces occurrences of lib directories in 
 classpaths with the jar and zip files that those directories
 contain. This means that you no longer have to include
 jar and zip files explicitly in classpaths. See 
 jde-expand-classpath-p and jde-lib-directory-name for details.
* This release enhances the JDE project file system to support
 hierarchical project files. The enhanced code remembers which
 project files set options and will save them back to the appropriate
 project file when the project is saved.
 When the values of variables are newly customized, the new value is
 saved in the deepest project file found relative to the buffer where
 `jde-save-project' is invoked. Thus, the buffer where you save the
 project controls in whic project file newly customized values are
 saved.
 A side-effect of the changes is where do relative paths resolve to
 now that path-related options can be set by multiple project files?
 The project system solves that problem by resolving relative paths
 relative to the project file that defines the option.
 Thanks to "Nick Sieger" <nsieger@bitstream.net> for contributing this
 enhancement.
JDE 2.2.7beta6
* Implements hierarchical project files. 
 The JDE now saves only variables that have been customized for the
 current session in project files. The JDE now loads project files in
 the following manner. It first sets all the JDE variables to their
 Emacs startup values (i.e., the default value or the value saved in
 your .emacs file). It then loads all the project files in the
 directory tree containing the current source buffer, starting with
 the topmost file.
 What this means is that you can now use project files to
 extend and/or override the settings in your .emacs file and
 in other project files. For example, your .emacs file can
 specify settings that are common to all your projects.
 You can put settings common to a group of projects at the
 top of the directory tree containing the projects, settings
 common to each project at the top of the directory containing
 each projects, and so on.
 Thanks to Nick Sieger for contributing to this enhancement.
* Includes minor improvements to the JDE's package statement
 generation facility contributed by David Ponce.
JDE 2.2.7beta5
* Replaced use of the which function, which is not in the Emacs
 or XEmacs distribution, with executable-find, which is in both
 distributions. The JDE now requires executable.el which defines
 executable-find. executable.el is in the sh-script package in 
 the XEmacs distribution.
* The JDE now supports use of relative paths wherever the JDE
 requires a path, for example, when setting jde-global-classpath.
 The JDE converts relative paths if jde-resolve-relative-paths is
 set to a non-nil value (the default). The JDE converts a relative 
 path to an absolute path by appending the relative path to the
 path of the project file for the current buffer or, if no such
 file exists, to the path of the current Java source buffer.
 You can use relative paths and environment variables to 
 construct portable project files. For example, suppose your
 project directory has the following structure:
 myprj
 classes
 pkg1
 pkg2
 src
 pkg1
 pkg2
 prj.el
 Further suppose that your project uses beans from a 
 shared library specified by the environment variable
 BEANS. With this setup, you can specify jde-global-classpath as
 ./src
 ./classes
 $BEANS/lib/dials.jar
 and jde-compile-option-directory as
 ./classes
 This causes the JDE to store classes compiled from your src
 directory in the classes directory. Note that you have not
 used any absolute paths in creating your project file. This
 means you can move your project anywhere without having to update
 the project file.
* jde-project-name is now a customizable variable that specifies
 the name of the current project.
* JDE->Options->Project File->Save (M-x jde-save-project) now prompts
 you to enter the name of the directory in which to save a new
 project file.
* This releases adds a new command, JDE->Options->Project File->Save In
 (M-x jde-save-project-in) that saves the current project in a 
 directory.
JDE 2.2.7beta4
* Now jde-which-method mode updates the method in the mode line 
 during idle times instead of after every keystroke. This
 eliminates the slowdown in keyboard navigation caused by this
 mode in earlier releases.
 Thanks to Steven Monnier for this improvement.
* Which-method-mode is once again enabled by default. To disable
 it, customize jde-which-method-mode to nil.
* Modified the way JDEbug launches a debuggee process. In 
 particular, JDEbug now sets up the process standard I/O on
 the standard I/O socket connection thread. Previously JDEbug
 waited for the socket connect thread to die before setting
 up the standard I/O threads. JDEbug now also writes a header
 line to the standard I/O socket on startup. I'm hoping that
 these changes will eliminate the startup hang problem that
 affects some users.
JDE 2.2.7beta3
* Disable jde-which-method-mode by default.
 This mode slows down scrolling, which is disconserting to
 new users, who assume that it is an unavoidable problem
 with using the JDE. Better to let users specifically enable
 this mode so that they are aware of its existance and its
 impact on scrolling performance.
* Fixed bug in compile and run commands that caused them to
 fail if a classpath is not specified.
* Now initializes jde-mode-abbrev-table to ensure 
 compatability with cc-mode 5.28. 
 Thanks to David Ponce for this fix.
* Fixed incorrect generation of javadoc index path in 
 jde-javadoc-make function. 
 Thanks to "William G. Griswold" <wgg@cs.ucsd.edu> for this fix.
* Updated Beanshell to latest production version: 1.01.
* Added customization variable, bsh-startup-directory.
* JDE->Run App (jde-run), if prefixed by C-u, now prompts
 you to enter the name of the main class to run.
* Changed the jde-help-get-doc function to invoke apply
 with a list as the last argument.
 Thanks to Adrian Robert <arobert@polexis.com> for this
 fix.
* Enhanced jde-help-symbol (JDE->Help->Symbol at Point) command
 to permit accessing javadoc pages located at remote (http)
 as well as local URL addresses. Accessing remote pages 
 requires that the GNU utility, wget, be installed on your
 system in the Emacs exec-path. Native Windows and cygwin
 versions of this utility are available on the Internet.
 Thanks to Adrian Robert <arobert@polexis.com> for providing
 the initial version of this enhancement.
* Fixed author line in jde-gen templates. 
 Thanks to Karel.Sprenger@compaq.com.
* Completion index menu now pops up at point in Emacs and at
 the current mouse postion in XEmacs. I'd like the menu to
 popup at point in XEmacs but I can't figure out how to do it.
 Thanks to Matt_Conway@i2.com for providing the initial 
 version of this enhancement.
* Fixed regular expression for finding package in 
 source buffer so that there must be a space between package 
 and the package name. This is to prevent false hits. 
 Thanks to Rory Molinari <molinari@math.lsa.umich.edu>.
JDE 2.2.7beta2
* Add jde-java-font-lock.api to the JDE zip files.
* You can now use tilde (~) notation in paths.
* You can now use environment variables, tilde notation, and 
 cygwin syntax in jde-compile-option-directory path.
* Adds jde-package-update command.
 This command generates or updates the package statement at
 the head of the current Java source buffer based on the
 location of the buffer directory in the classpath.
 Thanks to David Ponce for providing this command.
* The class, console app, and Swing app templates now prompt
 you to enter a package name. The prompt includes a suggested
 package name based on the location of the current directory 
 in the classpath.
JDE 2.2.7beta1
* Completion now asks user whether to import a class that it
 cannot find. Thanks to Phillip Lord.
* Adds cflow expansions for try, catch, and finally. 
 Thanks to Venkatesh Prasad Ranganath <rvprasad@ksu.edu> for these expansions.
* Changed oref-engine to oref in jde-dbs-proc-set-find.
* Font-locking improvements from David Ponce
 - You can now fontify user-defined identifiers with the new
 jde-java-font-lock-api-face. These identifiers are read in the
 file specified by the `jde-java-font-lock-api-file' option.
 The JDE provides a default file "jde-java-font-lock.api" to
 fontify class names of the core 'java' and 'javax' packages (JDK
 1.3) and servlet API (JSDK 2.0). To enable this fontification
 just put this file on your home directory, maybe modify it to suit
 your needs and execute the command:
 M-x jde-java-font-lock-setup-keywords 
 (or restart Emacs).
 To improve reloading a cache file of regular expressions matching
 these names is created in the same directory (see the
 source for more details).
 - Because the 'const' and 'goto' keywords are reserved, but not
 currently used they are now fontified with `font-lock-warning-face'.
 - The 'default' keyword is now fontified with
 `font-lock-keyword-face'. This was suggested by Stephane Nicolas
 s.nicolas@videotron.ca>.
* Changed the definition of formal_parameter_list in the Java grammar
 to improve performance (less backtracking) when parsing parameters 
 in method and constructor declarations. Thanks to David Ponce.
* Adds jde-abbrev-mode and jde-show-abbrev commands. Thanks to
s.nicolas@videotron.ca.
* Add "\." to the definition of class_type in jtags script so
 that methods whose return type included a period (e.g, Foo.Bar)
 are tagged:
	 class_type="\<\([$capital][a-zA-Z_$digit\.]*\)\>"
 Thanks to Charles Rich <rich@merl.com>
* Fixed infinite recursion bug in jde-parse-update-after-parse when
creating a new file.
* Add jde-cygwin-path-converter variable. This variable allows you to
choose a function
 for converting cygwin paths to DOS paths. The default function implements
the current
 method for converting paths. Alternatives include a function that uses
cygwin's
 cygpath utility or a function that you supply.
* Adds support for environment variable substitution in
jde-global-classpath and
 jde-db-source-directories, e.g., "$JDK_HOME/src", is a valid entry in
 jde-db-source-directories.
* Updates all customization variable definitions to permit completion of
path names
 in customization buffers. To complete an entry in any path field, press
M, then Tab.
 Note, you must press the keys successively, not simultaneously.
* Makes the following changes to the jtags scripts.
	(1) Added "-l none" to the etags arguments (all four calls) to
	eliminate the additional spurious tags that were coming from etags'
	default java parsing:
	 ${etags_dir}etags -l none -a -o ${java_dir}/TAGS \
	(2) Added "\/" to the prohibited characters at the start of class2,
	method1 and method2 to prevent comment lines like
	// this is a nice interface for catching mice
	getting tagged:
class2="/^[^.*\/]*\($modifier$ws*\)*\<\(class\|interface\)\>$ws*$identifier/
7円/"
	Thanks to Charles Rich <rich@merl.com> for these improvements.
* Makes the following improvments to the javadoc facility:
 - Improved `jde-javadoc-start-tag-regexp' and
 `jde-javadoc-end-tag-regexp' regular expressions which fix little
 problems when parsing javadoc tags. These regexps enforce the
 following rule (from JDK 1.3 documentation "javadoc - The Java API
 Documentation Generator" - Chapter "DOCUMENTATION COMMENTS" -
 "Standard and in-line tags":
 "[...] a standard tag must appear at the beginning of a line,
 ignoring leading asterisks, white space and comment separator
 (/**). This means you can use the @ character elsewhere in the text
 and it will not be interpreted as the start of a tag. If you want to
 start a line with the @ character and not have it be interpreted,
 use the HTML entity @. [...]"
 - `jde-javadoc-checker-report-mode' now turns on `font-lock-mode'.
 This is useful in XEmacs which don't have a `global-font-lock-mode'.
 - Filling of messages in `jde-javadoc-checker-show-report' now works
 with XEmacs too.
 Thanks to David Ponce for these improvements.
* Fixes bug that inserted -sourcepath argument twice in the javadoc command
line.
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