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How to use JBuilder to manage your "to do" items

JBuilder has a nice feature that I've started using lately to track "to do" items. These are the places in my Java projects where I know that I need to fix or change something, but I just don't have the time to do it at the moment. So, what I do is create a "todo" Javadoc tag that I can use as both a reminder and a management tool. Here's how it works:

Java source code formatting in JBuilder

Don't like your curly braces at the end of the line? Rather have them on the next line? What about your block indentation, your else's, your while's, and your catch's, implements, extends, and throws? How about those import statements, and what about that line wrapping?

JBuilder - link to Keith Wood's OpenTools site

Keith Wood has written a book about the JBuilder OpenTools, appropriately named "Inside the JBuilder OpenTools API". Here is a link to his site, and here is an even more direct link to the JBuilder OpenTools code samples he has on his site.

How do I change the JBuilder Look and Feel?

Go to Tools | Preferences, and then when the resulting Preferences dialog shows up, choose Browser in the tree on the left hand side of the dialog, then Look & Feel. In the Look & Feel combo box on the right you can choose from the following options:

Links related to JBuilder Open Tools, and using Ant with JBuilder

Here is a quick dump of JBuilder-related bookmarks I added to my personal collection last week. These are all related to Open Tools, and more recently how to build JBuilder applications using Ant.

How to debug a JBuilder OpenTool in JBuilder X

Summary: This is a brief discussion about how to debug a JBuilder OpenTool. Debugging an OpenTool is not at all like debugging normal Java code, and a special technique is required, specifically starting one instance of JBuilder from an existing JBuilder environment. These notes apply to JBuilderX, and may not work for other versions.

How to modify the JBuilder classpath (by editing jbuilder.config)

I recently started creating a few OpenTools for JBuilder. One of the instructions you see when you first start creating an OpenTool is that you need to modify your JBuilder classpath during OpenTool development so the classpath includes the location of your OpenTool files. But, the instructions I found were for old versions of JBuilder (that were no longer valid), which leads to the question "How can I modify the JBuilder CLASSPATH to recognize the location of my custom class files?"

How to read a file from the JBuilder installation directory when creating an OpenTool

So, you're creating a JBuilder OpenTool (using the JBuilder OpenTool API) and you want to use a properties file to configure your OpenTool. Knowing the way OpenTools are installed within the JBuilder environment, you come to the conclusion that the best place to store that properties file is in the "/lib/ext" directory under the JBuilder installation directory. That being said, how do you access that directory from within your OpenTool?

JBuilder key sequences to remember

Here are some important/useful JBuilder keyboard shortcuts to remember:

JBuilder Open Tools - Some of the best JBuilder "Open Tools"?

JBuilder Open Tools question: Can you tell me some of the best JBuilder Open Tools?

Sure. From the Borland Conference 2001, here is a list of the Top-10 Open Tools for JBuilder:

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