James Gosling's Jackpot Project.
James Gosling, trying to recover lost ground in the IDE wars, is now working on a new project called Jackpot. IDEA and Eclipse are so far ahead of the game that's its doubtful that Gosling can add anything new. However, you can't count out the father of Java and Emacs(?), he just might pull a rabbit out of the hat!
What's been released to date is a metrics module (might be good to integrate with Maven) and a class file library (doesn't BCEL do this already?). Nothing appears revolutionary, but its worth investigating.
The goal seems to build some kind of analysis engine that will slice and dice code, and perhaps add some refactoring capabilities (described elsewhere as an AST transformation library with fast pattern searching). Also on tap is an architecture that supports dynamic creation of specialized editors for code (apparently with emphasis on preserving comments and whitespaces). [::Manageability::]
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