• Pavel Gurevich

Note: This project is a sequel of an earlier project made by the former Fourth Contact group. All the tools below were written from the scratch.

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Eclipse in an open-source Integrated Development Environment (IDE); the most known use of Eclipse is developing Java applications, but Eclipse itself is a generic environment that is highly extensible and customizable. Actually, Eclipse is very big software system composed from many different tools and components, and its source counts of hundreds thousands of code lines. To understand how its pieces works there is a need in special code exploration tools.

The project consists of the following tools that integrate with SuperToobox developed by Horns & Hooves Team

• Static Tools that analyze source code

  ScrapBook

  Allows to collect, store and manage useful code snippets. It is also possible to export the whole collection or a part of it to HTML cross-referenced format (sample).

  Resource Information

  Shows available information about a node in Package explorer

• Dynamic Tools that collect various information available during the run-time and present it in the human-readable form.

  Participating Classes Tool

  Helps to identify classes that participated in a scenario.

  Important Classes Tool

  Helps to identify important classes of a scenario (for example, frequently accessed ones).

  Call Statistics Tool

  Presents various statistics about scenario execution, including caller-callee relations.

• Database Tools work with the internal database

  Load/Save/Recover

  Allows to save database state and recover from manually saved or automatic backup.

Screenshots

• ScrapBook View
  
• Category View
  
• Detailed Statistics View
  
• Add Snippet Wizard
  
• Code Snippet Information Popup
  

  These screenshots were taken on SuSE Linux 10.1 using KDE 3.5 and widget style 'Linspire Clear'.

License

Eclipse Explorer Toolbox
Copyright (C) 2006 Pavel Gurevich

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License
as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2
of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
GNU General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA  02110-1301, USA.

Download

• Project Binaries & Sources - contains all the jar files for running the project.
• You will also need Super-Toolbox plug-in and java2html converter plug-in (also available from http://www.java2html.de/eclipse.html under GPL v2 license).
• Online Documentation - contains detailed tool documentations

To run this application, just start the eclipse ide, and choose from the menu:

Window -> Show View -> Other -> Investigator -> Super Toolbox

You can see the toolbox under the H&H Toolbox tab.