Advanced Java Refactoring JavaOne Slides Available

Today I gave a talk at JavaOne titled Advanced Java Refactoring: Pushing the Envelope to a packed room, and just pushed a PDF of the slides to the Jackpot project site. Unfortunately I mismanaged the talk#039;s time, spending too long on the demo and had to blast through the last (and, IMHO, the most interesting) slides. My apologies to those in the audience for not doing a better job by them. It was great to see the continued interest in Java refactoring as its state-of-the-art is improving so rapidly among all the Java IDEs. I#039;ve come to rely on the 6.0 NetBeans Java editor over the past several months, in large part because many common refactorings and some new ones are fully integrated into the editor, instead of hiding in a separate Refactoring menu. Traditional refactoring improved my productivity when I first started using it many years ago, but this tighter integration is like strapping booster rockets to my chair. So my talk wasn#039;t about the cool refactorings I#039;m starting to work on, but instead about how Java tools are changing the very meaning of refactoring and taking it much farther than it was first envisioned. When debating language strengths, one thing Java engineers may be overlooking is how much Java#039;s being a strongly-typed and statically inspectable language determines how refactorable it is. For example, the bytecode verifier that has been a part of the JVM since 1.0 puts several limits o...

Date: May, 11 2007
Url: http://www.java.net/blog/2007/05/10/advanced-java-refactoring-javaone-slides-available

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