J2eeEditorsTasksAndFeatures60
J2EE Editors Task List
Current Editor Support Features
Following table roughly depicts the state of the generic features in our editors.
| Feature | HTML | CSS | JSP | EL | XML | DTD |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| coloring | o | o | o | o | o | o |
| semantic coloring | o/- | |||||
| completion | o | o | o | o | ||
| completion javadoc | o | o | ? | |||
| folding | o | o | - | o | ||
| formatting/indent. | o | o | - | o | ? | |
| error highliting | o | o | ||||
| hints | ||||||
| palette | o | o | ? | |||
| live templates | ||||||
| navigator | - | o | ||||
| comment/uncomment | o/- | |||||
| bracked matching | o | ? | o | o | ||
| hyperlinking | o | |||||
| drag & drop | ||||||
- o ... feature available
- - ... the feature doesn't make sense or is useless for the editor
- o/- ... feature partially available
- Empty cell means that the features is not available and it make sense to have it.
- EL (Expression language is ment to be included in JSP here
TBD elaborate possible combinations of editors/features here.
Editor features - potential candidates to implement for 6.0
The following list of features is extracted from Issuezilla, Nb Features in for Promotion H, Ideas for Features and Enhancements in NetBeans 6.0 - Java EE area document and Web Application RAD Race results.
| Pri | Task | Issue | Status | TM | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| P3 | HTML | ||||
| P4 | navigation to CSS file for HTML elements | ||||
| P4 | semantic coloring based on CSS style | Somehow mark elements whose rendering is defined by css | |||
| P3 | Soft line-wrapping | 34719 | |||
| P3 | Help -> Javadoc references should contain HTML reference etc. | ||||
| P3 | Context aware code completion | 59029 | |||
| P3 | Hyperlinking | 63566 | |||
| P3 | JSP | ||||
| P2 | provide all possible java editor features in JSP scriptlets (now are missing folding, abbreviations - live templates, error highlighting etc.) | ||||
| P4 | hints related to warnings/errors - e.g. adding JSTL/JSF taglib reference for known tags | ||||
| P4 | drag and drop JSTL tags, but the taglib declaration is not added. Might be done by hits - not add the taglib automatically?!? | ||||
| P3 | In code completion, offer all available tags, not just those already declared on the page. Then add a taglib declaration if missing. Distinguish the CC itmes somehow. | ||||
| P4 | detect & show warning when taglib declaration is missing and a custom tags are used. | Maybe detect by the : char in the JSP tag name | |||
| P4 | Drag & Drop from explorer to editor: pictures, css, other files underneeth docroot | ||||
| P4 | cc for attribute values, like color chooser, file chooser etc. | ||||
| P3 | Provide UI for page encoding | 40686 | |||
| P3 | Provide Code Templates in JSP completion | 60014 | |||
| P3 | Reflect JSP content-type directive atribute in the editor | 32739 | |||
| P3 | Better support for JSP Documents | 41151 | |||
| P3 | Improve JSP scriptlets background coloring | 50102 | |||
| P2 | CSS | ||||
| P1 | Code completion | 21129 | The code completion must work in all .css, .x/html and .xml files. | ||
| P2 | code completion documentation | ||||
| P4 | folding | ||||
| P3 | indentation | ||||
| P4 | visual previewing of current style class. | ||||
| P3 | validation of current stylesheet against selectable standards (eg CSS1, CSS2, IE, etc) | ||||
| P4 | Easy navigation (hyperlink) between CSS and places where it is used and easy to inser a css into a page (list all css files in project) | NbFeature1269 | |||
| P4 | Find usages, rename and safely delete refactorings for style classes | NbFeature1269 | |||
| P5 | XML | ||||
| P3 | Show syntax errors in text editor | 23898 | |||
| P2 | Comment, uncomment | 58552 | Usefull for HTML/JSP as well. Already implemented in XMLKit, just default shortcuts are missing. | ||
| P4 | Namespace-driven syntax highlighting | 25736 | |||
| P5 | Enhance Code Completion by Documentation Hints | 31827 | |||
| P3 | "Element skipping" keyboard shortcut | 19799 | Usefull for HTML/JSP as well | ||
| P3 | XML Hyperlinking | 58332 | |||
| P4 | General issues for all editors | ||||
| P3 | Renew Editor Colors | NbFeature1168 | |||
| P3 | Get rid of implementation dependencies between web/jspsyntax and web/core=, {{web/jsf (create appropriate friend? API) | ||||
| P4 | Get rid of the tree-edit code in xml/core and the module itself | It is just messing the rest of the code up and causing memory leaks. | |||
