“quickfix” or “why i hate the jdt”

so the jdt, or java development tool, is the built-in java ide that comes with eclipse. it provides a lot of great features, including my favorite, quick fix. quickfix makes me a really lazy programmer, but that’s not why i hate the jdt (actually, that’s why i love using it). i hate the jdt because i desperately want quickfix support in flex builder 2.

background: quick fix in the jdt is a system for code repair that is keyed off of error codes reported back from the java compiler. if i use a variable without declaring it, i can bring up a quickfix window that asks me if i want to declare a new field or variable. if i implement an interface, same thing: i have the option to create stubs for the methods i must implement.

quickfix is one of those features i hope we have time to slip in(sorry larry). since actionscript looks and acts like java in a number of ways, the same quickfix behavior would be really awesome. just like in the jdt, you could imagine a quick fix for a missing import, or for functions you need to override for a given interface.

and this is why i hate the jdt: because they have quickfix, and i feel like zorn has to have quick fix. honestly, i feel like zorn needs *every* feature that the jdt has, but that’s what new product releases are for.