Variable Highlighter

What is the Variable Highlighter?

Variable Highlighter is a plug-in tool for Java Integrated Development Environments (IDE). It helps to read and modify a programming language source code. Variable highlighting and navigation significantly simplify understanding the variable usage evolution.

Starting from November 2002, it becomes a very popular plug-in for Borland JBuilder and Oracle JDeveloper IDEs. You can get it for free from this site and improve your programming productivity.

Features

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Downloads

IDE Plugin Readme Source Version Release date
JBuilder 4-10,2005 varhigh-jbuilder-v1.2.3.jar jb-readme.txt varhigh-jbuilder-src-v1.2.3.jar 1.2.3 19 Feb 2005
JDeveloper 9i 9.0.3 varhigh-jdev9-v1.2.3.jar jd9-readme.txt varhigh-jdev9-src-v1.2.3.jar 1.2.3 19 Feb 2005
JDeveloper 10g 9.0.5 varhigh-jdev10-v1.2.3.jar jd10-readme.txt varhigh-jdev10-src-v1.2.3.jar 1.2.3 19 Feb 2005

History

24.11.2002 The first release of the Variable Highlighter V1.1 for JBuilder.

27.11.2002 The Variable Highlighter V1.1 is released for JDeveloper.

22.09.2003 The Variable Highlighter has got the "JARS TOP 25%" rating.

24.09.2003 A new version of the Variable Highlighter V1.2 is released for both IDEs. Several bugs have been fixed. Distinct highlighting was added for class attributes, method parameters and local variables. Added support for Java 1.4 syntax.

04.10.2003 A maintainance version of the Variable Highlighter V1.2.1 is released. The focus is set up on the text field in the rename dialog. Minor bug fixed.

20.01.2004 A maintainance version of the Variable Highlighter V1.2.2 is released. Fixed the bug, which caused the tool stops working. The keystrokes changes are properly stored for JBuilder.

12.05.2004 The project is moved to SourceForge.

31.05.2004 New release compatible with JDeveloper 10g 9.0.5. Thanks to Brian Duff for code modifications.

19.02.2005 New release V1.2.3 is compatible with JBuilder 2005. Fixed critical Swing/SWT synchronization problems, improved event handling. Thanks to Markus Hampel for the detailed bug report and testing.

License

Variable Highlighter is free, released under the The Sun Public License (SPL).

Acknowledgments

The core component is the java syntax parser. It has been generated by Java Compiler Compiler (JavaCC) - The Java Parser Generator based on the Java1_4c.jj syntax grammar contributed by Sriram Sankar, David Williamns, Andrea Gini and Marco Savard.

Brian Duff has modified the code for compatibility with JDeveloper 10g.

I would like to thank all people who sent me bug reports and improvement wishes.

Bug Reports

Please send bug reports and enhancement requests to Simeon Zverinski

Copyright © 2002-2005 Simeon Zverinski. All rights reserved.

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