CodeChase:
A local desktop search engine optimized for Eclipse developers and the Eclipse work environment. Implemented as an IDE plugin.
Features:
- free-text search (Lucene-syntax) over locally hosted content
- intelligent document content specializations for Java, PDF, HTML/XML, and plain-text
- automatically opens jar, zip, tar, tgz and tbz2 archives for indexing and searching
- search results files can be opened directly in content appropriate platform editors
- full featured wizard support for setting indexing options
Uses:
- search the Eclipse source jars to see how the platform itself uses any particular methods and classes
- search the Eclipse plugins to find specific features in the plugin.xmls
- search over multiple workspaces and projects (do not need to be open)
- search local filesystem hierarchies external to any workspace
Categories: Code Management, Search, Tools
Additional Details
Eclipse Versions: Neon (4.6), Mars (4.5), Oxygen (4.7), Photon (4.8), 2018-09 (4.9), 2018-12 (4.10), 2019-03 (4.11), 2019-06 (4.12), 2019-09 (4.13), 2019-12 (4.14), 2020-03 (4.15), 2020-06 (4.16), 2020-09 (4.17), 2020-12 (4.18), 2021-03 (4.19)
Platform Support: Windows, Mac, Linux/GTK
Organization Name: Certiv Analytics
Development Status: Production/Stable
Date Created: Monday, March 16, 2009 - 09:50
License: EPL
Date Updated: Wednesday, December 14, 2022 - 09:46
Submitted by: Gerald Rosenberg
| Date | Ranking | Installs | Clickthroughs |
|---|---|---|---|
| February 2026 | 0/0 | 0 | 3 |
| January 2026 | 0/0 | 0 | 11 |
| December 2025 | 618/621 | 1 | 30 |
| November 2025 | 0/0 | 0 | 8 |
| October 2025 | 621/637 | 1 | 17 |
| September 2025 | 614/653 | 1 | 11 |
| August 2025 | 583/615 | 1 | 11 |
| July 2025 | 513/636 | 3 | 6 |
| June 2025 | 497/627 | 4 | 12 |
| May 2025 | 616/634 | 1 | 6 |
| April 2025 | 553/623 | 2 | 18 |
| March 2025 | 586/661 | 2 | 12 |
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Not useful for non-Java code searches
Submitted by cbarber@curl.com on Thu, 02/11/2010 - 11:51
While I was able to index my Java, xml and html files, I cannot get it to index other programming language sources such as C, C++, Objective C or Curl, so this does not appear to be useful for indexing non-Java source code repositories.
Also, the Certiv support page lacks an e-mail address.
To clarify ...
Submitted by Gerald Rosenberg on Thu, 02/11/2010 - 16:20
In reply to Not useful for non-Java code searches by cbarber@curl.com
The support email address is provided on the first line of the Support Page.
CodeChase provides intelligent indexing of Java, PDF, and HTML/XML -- all other documents types are indexed and are searchable as plain text.