IDE support for Project Coin

[Joe Darcy]

Additional information on planned Eclipse support for JDK 7:
http://thecoderlounge.blogspot.com/2011/05/eclipse-jdt-and-java-7.html

-Joe

Joe Darcy wrote:
> FYI, all of NetBeans, IntelliJ, and Eclipse have some level of support 
> in progress for Project Coin's language features.
>
> The recently released NetBeans 7.0 [1]  has support for all the Coin 
> features.  As explained in its release notes [2], beyond just 
> recognizing the features in the editor NetBeans 7.0 provides 
> auto-completion to diamond and gives hints to apply the new features to 
> existing code.
>
> As previously announced for IntelliJ IDEA [3], the builds of IDEA 10.5 
> EAP (early access program) [4] provide similar quickfix support.
>
> Finally, an Eclipse branch [5] is hosting their efforts to support 
> Project Coin.
>
> As JSR 334 is not quite done yet [6], I'd expect the IDEs to be updated 
> after JSR 334 is completed to account for any specification changes made 
> in the interim.
>
> Happy hacking,
>
> -Joe
>
> [1] http://netbeans.org/community/releases/70/
> [2] http://wiki.netbeans.org/NewAndNoteworthyNB70#JDK7_support
> [3] 
> http://blogs.jetbrains.com/idea/2011/02/announcing-intellij-idea-105-with-full-java-7-support/
> [4] http://confluence.jetbrains.net/display/IDEADEV/IDEA+10.5+EAP
> [5] http://wiki.eclipse.org/JDT_Core/Java7
> [6] http://blogs.sun.com/darcy/entry/project_coin_jsr_334_pr
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