[WDSCI-L] Here's something really nice

["Joe Pluta" <joepluta@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

You know how sometimes you need to change the name of an attribute?  For
whatever reason, the meaning of the attribute has shifted a little with
time, and now it would just be better from a clarity standpoint to rename
the thing.  For example, I just had to change an attribute from "state" to
"type".  Well, if you use the "refactor" option in the JDT, it will give you
an option to change the setter and getter.  And if you select that option,
the IDE will in turn go and find all the embedded references to the getter
and setter and allow to change them as well.

So now an operation that used to take at the least a few minutes to change
the name, regen the setter and getter, then manually fix all the errors that
popped up, and often took much lnoger especially when you screwed one up and
only found out about it later during debugging, can now be done in a matter
of seconds.  This now means that it's entirely reasonable to make those
sorts of changes, which are very important during the formative stages of a
class hierarchy in order to make sure the method names are intuitive.

Thanks, JDT team!  Excellent job!

Joe