Remus Stratulat - On the Stre@m

A new version of Interakt’s Eclipse JavaScript editor is out. There were some twiks made and it’s better then ever.

New features:

• match brackets
• go to matching bracket Ctrl+B
• select to matching bracket Ctrl+G
• replace tabs with spaces (Preferences)
• disable error reporting (Preferences)
• more DOM static code completion libraries

Almost a week has passed since the release and JSEclipse gets good reviews on the web.

The creator of DWR - Direct Web Remoting, Joe Walker, speaks nicely on he’s blog about JSEclipse: The best Javascript editor so far.

This editor is a continuation for NRG JavaScript Editor. But there are a lot of differences between them:

• Better code completion - the editor proposes completions from all the JavaScript files inside the current Eclipse project and proposes element IDs from the HTMLs that include the current .js file when calling a getElementById() function.
• Go to declaration - if a class method call is recognized by the editor ( it’s not an exact science as JavaScript is a week typed language and only part of the information are available at coding time) then when pressing F3 the file in which that method is defined is opened and the cursor is placed at the method declaration.

This are only two of the realy great features of this product. You can find out more on the InterAKT’s site.