http://jmatter.org/articles/2006/07/13/intellij-idea-support en-us 40 Simplify <p>Sam Griffith proposed on the jMatter mailing list (a couple of weeks ago) the construction of a jMatter application for the construction of jMatter applications.</p> <p>I can imagine how one might simply instantiate a few instances of "Entity" in a GUI, specify field names, and other meta-information, and then layer behaviour on top of it, namely: "Generate Source Code."</p> <p>This is a worthy goal. In fact, I clearly recall once seeing screenshots of an application built by Rick Mugridge for NakedObjects called "Emperor" (although as far as I know, this application was never made accessible to a wider audience).</p> <p>We will get there. But in the meantime, I thought I'd post a few simple IntelliJ IDEA live templates for jMatter that I recently put together. This is nothing fancy, but it's a small, first step.</p> <p>The xml file, <a href="/tooling/jmatter.xml">jmatter.xml</a>, can be dropped into the <code>config/templates/</code> directory of your user configuration area. On linux, the full path is <code>~/.IntelliJIdea50/config/templates/</code></p> <p>So, for example, if you've defined a class named <code>Talk</code> and a many to one association to a <code>Speaker</code> via a field named <code>spk</code>, instead of hand-coding the JavaBeans bound property's getter and setter methods, you can instead type:</p> <pre><code> bprop[tab] </code></pre> <p>and fill in the two arguments: <code>spk[tab]</code> and <code>Speaker[tab]</code> and you're basically done.</p> <p>I've defined a little over a dozen such simple live timeplates (fo for fieldOrder, cc for ColorCode, cmd for defining a command method, etc..</p> Thu, 13 Jul 2006 15:54:00 -0500 urn:uuid:05b2ad4ac9c237cf2cad3717d45797c6 Eitan Suez http://jmatter.org/articles/2006/07/13/intellij-idea-support <p>createInstance() creates and initializes a new domain object programmatically. It's equivalent to the New command on types.</p> <p>it not only instantiates the object in question but sets its initial state properly and performs initialization (if applicable).</p> <p>progammatically, in jmatter you should use createInstance() and not simply invoke a constructor.</p> Tue, 01 Aug 2006 19:04:39 -0500 urn:uuid: http://jmatter.org/articles/2006/07/13/intellij-idea-support#comment-5 <p>What is the purpose of cri (create instance) code pattern? When should it be used?</p> <p>cheers</p> Fri, 14 Jul 2006 10:11:09 -0500 urn:uuid: http://jmatter.org/articles/2006/07/13/intellij-idea-support#comment-4