I recently talked to some NetBeans users who were interested in a demonstration of the features that will be part of NetBeans IDE 7.2. (See the 7.2 New and Noteworthy for the full list.)
One of the new features I demonstrated was this one. In an interface declaration, NetBeans IDE 7.2 will provide a hint, as can be seen in the sidebar below:
When the lightbulb is clicked, or Alt-Enter is pressed, this will be shown:
When the hint is invoked, the user will see this:
And then the user will be able to enter the name of a class, and the name of a package, and assuming the defaults above are taken, a class with this content will be generated:
package demo;
public class WordProcessorImpl implements WordProcessor {
@Override
public String process(String word) {
throw new UnsupportedOperationException("Not supported yet.");
}
}
When I demonstrated the above, the response from the audience was: "That's cool. But it would be even better if..."
it was possible to implement an interface into an existing class.
it was possible to select a class and specify the interfaces that it should implement.
it was possible, in the context of a NetBeans Platform application, to specify the module where the class should be implemented.
So I created some issues:
Implement an interface into an existing class http://netbeans.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=210804
Select class and specify interfaces to implement http://netbeans.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=210805
Allow user to select module for generating implementation http://netbeans.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=210807
