Two IDEA 8.0 Features Worth the Price to Upgrade
I don’t know about you, but I’ve got code in my code base that still uses arrays and we need to move them to Lists. Sounds like fun, huh? Well, a new refactoring in IDEA 8.0, Type Migration, is going to help a lot in this task. The other feature that blew me away during the EAP was the Data Flow To This… command, which lets you see how the variable you’re looking at got its value all the way back through the method chains. This is really useful when you’re trying to figure out, say, why the value is null and where it got set that way.
Examples and screenshots on these coming soon.
The “Data Flow To This” feature sound like a breakthrough in software debugging tools. Please update us if you and other Guidewires really use it.
Comment by Maor Conforti — November 24, 2008 @ 5:56 pm