David White's Extensions For Borland's All-Java JBuilder IDE

My experimentation with the Open Tools API began almost immediately after I downloaded my first copy of JBuilder Foundation 3.0. I have continued to create extensions to provide the functionality that my associates and I found missing in the initial release. This page has been published to share my results and to help foster a larger community of Open Tools programmers who's efforts will improve the JBuilder experience for all and help cement JBuilder's place in the growing population of java IDEs. The software distributed on this page is made available under the GNU Lesser General Public License.

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The opinions expressed herein are mine and mine alone. Your comments and questions should be directed to me.
 

My Open Tools Extensions

• SourceSafeAddin - Provides easy access to Microsoft's Visual Source Safe version control system from within the JBuilder IDE. Note: works with JBuilder 4.0 and 5.0 but does NOT operate via JBuilder's new, built-in, version control mechanism. Since this mechanism is available only to purchasers of the Enterprise Edition of JBuilder, I do NOT intend to support it in the near future.

• JindentAddin - NEW VERSION 2.50 - Integrates the excellent Jindent source code formatter into the JBuilder IDE.

• PrintAddin - A crude but effective means to print source code from within the JBuilder Foundation 3.0 IDE. JBuilder 3.5 and 4.0 now include a far superior printing solution but if you are using the initial release, this can easily get you printing.

• AddAllSubPackagesAddin - To meaningfully work with java source files within the JBuilder environment, you must add them to your IDE project. JBuilder provides a shortcut which allows you to add java packages rather than individual files and in version 3.5, you can select multiple packages from the dialog. In version 4.0 of JBuilder Professional and Enterprise there is now some support for "discovering" packages (however, it is not available to Foundation edition users and seems awkward at best). However, if your project is like many java projects I've seen, this can still be a pain. This addin makes it simple to add entire hierarchies of disk sub-directories (and the packages they contain) to your JBuilder project.

• ConfiguredClasspathTomcatSetup - Now you can edit the addin's properties file and have changes take effect without having to re-start JBuilder. Fixes problem caused by JBuilder 5.0 placing all known library files on the classpath passed to Tomcat. This addin allows you to specify the names of one or more library files to be stripped from the JVM classpath specified by the IDE when Tomcat is run. This permits the expected behavior of the web application.