I have been hacking Java lately using Eclipse and the Maven plugin. I have to say that it is really cool to view a sample project and just hop into libraries' source code with 'F3'. It is soooo cool!
For example. I am looking at a wicket project. http://www.brie.com/brian/wicket/zebra00.zip Unzip it. Open Eclipse. http://www.eclipse.org Install the Maven plugin http://www.eclipse.org/m2e/ Unzip the zebra00.zip project Import the project by doing the following. File->Import->Maven Existing Maven Projects Select the directory where zebra00 was unzipped. The project should now be imported. Tell eclipse to grab the sources and Javadocs by right clicking the project and selecting Maven->Download Sources Now open Index.java. /zebra00/src/main/java/com/brie/dtoo/Index.java Maven structures projects so files are located in src/main/java for regular classes. Under that, you should see a package named com.brie.dtoo and then the file named Index.java. Open it and go to Line 100, column 12. Press 'F3' once the cursor is located over the PropertyModel method. Voila, the class source from the wicket library opens in a new window! Cool, or what? brian -- Brian Lavender http://www.brie.com/brian/ "There are two ways of constructing a software design. One way is to make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies. And the other way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies." Professor C. A. R. Hoare The 1980 Turing award lecture _______________________________________________ vox-tech mailing list [email protected] http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech
