Auto-Complete Suggestions in Source Code Editor

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Published on 2010-05-04T10:04:12Z Indexed on 2010/05/04 10:08 UTC
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Hello,

Most IDEs (Eclipse, Netbeans, Intelij) provide contextually smart suggestions about the current statement you're writing. We would like to do the same thing (In Java for Java).

We considered tokenizing the input and building our own abstract syntax trees, but quickly realized that could be a month long project in and of its self. We also started digging through the source code for the above mentioned IDEs, but it appears (correct me if I'm wrong) that the auto-complete code is pretty tightly woven with the rest of the IDE.

We're wondering if anyone knows of a relatively isolated package that we could pull into our project to provide this auto-complete functionality.

Thanks!

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