Eclipse Code Recommenders 2.0.2

Code Recommenders 2.0 is out!

As of version 2.0.2, Eclipse Code Recommenders allows for a seamless upgrade from version 1.x to 2.x. (Please note: Recommenders 2.0 supports/requires Eclipse Kepler or Eclipse Luna. If you are using earlier versions of Eclipse, please install Code Recommenders 1.x from http://download.eclipse.org/releases/juno.)

New features in 2.0:

• New Completion APIs
• Improved Speed
• Offline mode
• Possibility to combine different completions
• A Models Coordinates view showing you exactly for which frameworks code recommendations are available.
• Customizable dependency identification to work with your project setup

Introduction

Developers and CTOs know: Frequently changing teams and the “liberal” use of the latest and greatest technologies makes your burndown charts and project cost estimations burst within just a few weeks.

To compensate for "brain drain" and to lower the entrance barrier, team leads plan a fair amount of their team's time for documenting software, doing reviews, and pair programming to evenly spread the knowledge about how to use APIs over the whole team - and to newcomers in particular.

If done right, this is the best a team lead can do to make the team effective in the long run. But Code Recommenders thinks that there is more a team lead can do...

How much can an IDE predict what you will write in the next seconds?

At first glance, you might answer: nothing. Indeed, the information needed to complete the source code is primarily in the developer's brain. However, API designers typically have some expectations about how developers should use their APIs, i.e., they expect their clients to call certain methods at certain points in time and in particular order. The challenge to all newcomers is thus to learn about these implicit expectations and API usage rules fast enough to be of help for the team they joined.

Eclipse Code Recommenders assists developers in learning how to use and extend new APIs by analyzing applications that successfully applied the framework before and re-integrating this knowledge back into your IDE as:

• Intelligent Call Completion,
• Intelligent Method Overrrides Completion, and even
• Simple Code Snippets, and
• additional API documentation.

Check http://eclipse.org/recommenders/documentation/usr.html for a feature overview.