Visar inlägg med etikett netbeans. Visa alla inlägg
Visar inlägg med etikett netbeans. Visa alla inlägg

fredag 12 mars 2010

Hide boilerplate in netbeans

Im using the Netbeans 6.9m1, while looking for the code coverage plugin, i found something called "extended java editor" I added it without thinking and planed to look what it is later.
Then going back to my editorwindow this is what i found:



To make it more visible what it does here is a before image:


In other words,

  • it hides the Bundle lookups and instead shows the text in my bundle file.
  • hides the type on the right side of collections (new ArrayList<~>())
  • shows inner classes as closures
And this without changing any code. 
I think this makes the code allot easier to read. and it hilights other things that should be changed. For example i dont think ServerRootNode.getDefaultInstance().getConnection().addPropertyChangeListener...
looks that bad in the before picture. but in the after picture it looks horrible. 

There might be more things this plugin does that i haven't seen yet, i tried to find more information about it but there doesn't seem to be much.