Jacob Release History

Table of Contents

• Version 34.120
• Version 33.114
• Version 32.113
• Version 31.111
• Version 30.110
• Version 29.107
• Version 28.106
• Version 27.97
• Version 26.89
• Version 25.87
• Version 24.86
• Version 23.84
• Version 22.79
• Version 21.75
• Version 20.74
• Version 19.69
• Version 18.66
• Version 17.64
• Version 16.62
• Version 15.60
• Version 14.58
• Version 13.56
• Version 12.53
• Version 11.52
• Version 10.50
• Version 9.49
• Version 8.47
• Version 7.42
• Version 6.40
• Version 5.39
• Version 4.34
• Version 3.32
• Version 2.30
• Version 1.25
• Version 1.23

Release History

Version 34.120

A couple of minor bug fixes.

Fixed Bugs

1. 'jacob' shell script could not follow relative link to Jacob home.
2. Generated project shell scripts could not follow relative link to each project home.
3. Original classpath gets added in generated Unix project shell script.
4. Usage of $@ instead of $* in generated Unix project shell script.
5. tools.jar from the JDK is now in Jacob's class path by default, needed e.g. to create javadocs.
6. Original security manager gets restored before exiting Jacob.
7. XEmacs did not start up on Solaris when Jacob gets started first.
8. Default JDK home directory gets now setup correctly, JRE home was used by before.
9. Missed distributing licenses directory with example open source licenses for the Licensor tool (which adds a license header to each source file).

Version 33.114

Minor bug fixes, e.g. in Ant build.xml file creation.

What's New

1. New Ant build.xml file for Jacob project.

Fixed Bugs

1. Typo in Ant build.xml clean section.
2. Depending on the window manager the project setting screen was sometimes much wider than the screen.
3. Javadoc was used from jdk 1.1. In jdk 1.3 Sun renamed the package. Now Jacob loads and invokes whichever class is the right one.

Version 32.113

Basic Ant build.xml file creation.

What's New

1. Jacob can now create a basic Ant build.xml file for your current project to use for compilation.
2. The default batch file has now a smarter setting of the JACOB_HOME directory, thanks to a trick send to me by Glen Cordrey.

Fixed Bugs

1. An exception was thrown when adding new classes and clicking on the dialog below the last package.
2. Upgraded JEditEditor to use jEdit 3.1 final instead of jEdit 1.6. File loading and very basic method jumping seems to work. To use jEdit instead of Emacs add .../jedit/3.1/jedit.jar to the classpath and start Jacob with option -jedit. JDK 1.3 or higher is needed then.
3. Bean Shell jar file was not part of the class path in the Windows batch file. The jcf.jar file was missing as well.
4. Creating the default project batch file had the project home directory set to its bin directory, which was wrong.

Version 31.111

Minor bug fix version.

Fixed Bugs

1. For new projects the default source path is only set to $PROJECT_HOME/src if that directory does exist, otherwise the source path equals the class path.

Version 30.110

Automatic package renaming and a lincense plugin which adds a license header to each source file.

What's New

1. Renaming of a whole package which moves files around and adapts the package statement of each source file.
2. The Licensor is a tool which lets you select a license and it then goes through all Java source files of your current project and puts a license header comment at the top. It gives you a list of the files that were changed (or unchanged) afterwards. The header will have the proper project name, date, author etc. inserted. For details take a look at the licensor help section.
3. Fast selecting of main project class via right click pop up menu.
4. Default source path for new projects is now $PROJECT_HOME/src instead of the same value as the class path.

Fixed Bugs

1. New JavaNCSS library version fixes some Java parser bugs.
2. Bring Emacs to front with native code worked just after first opening and closing the preferences dialog.
3. On Linux a native method is used to position Jacob's frame. After years I lost patience that something simple as this got fixed in Java.
4. TestWizard adds also javadoc @exception line to generated source code. Otherwise javadoc generates a warning.
5. A debug output file 'sWindowsMakefile.txt' has always been written into the current directory.

Version 29.107

Major bug fix (load fails when new project doesn't contain a lib directory).

What's New

1. Batch Wizard to create initial source code for non gui application.
2. Jikes debugger interface code is still shipped but feature is removed from the tools section as nobody seems to use that tool anymore.

Fixed Bugs

1. Fatal error: new projects couldn't be created (exception) if the new project had no lib directory.
2. Exception when selecting main class when no package existed.
3. Minor problems removed from the generated code generated by the Application Wizard.

Version 28.106

New Java field wizard, and project data gets saved in xml format.

What's New

1. Field source code generation together with optional get/set method creation.
2. Project data is now serialized with Brendan Macmillan's JSX package in xml format.
3. A source wizard which creates a SAX2 XML parser (Handler) given an example xml file as input.
4. Source files which have a different suffix than .java can now be handled in Jacob. But this feature is hidden from the user interface, because I assume just a minority of users will need it.

Fixed Bugs

1. Missed a library in the unix shell script.

Version 27.97

Released under GNU GPL license for the first time.

What's New

1. Freeware GNU GPL license.
2. Javadoc plugin.
3. Plugin creates jar archive for project.
4. 'Add Method...' wizard lets you specify parameters and creates empty method comment as well.
5. A Java console shows Jacob's standard output and error messages. It's useful only for debugging Jacob itself.
6. Native code to bring Emacs to the front on Linux is not invoked by default anymore.

Fixed Bugs

1. Created project makefile coudn't handle '$' signs in file names on unix.

Version 26.89

New support for jEdit and Gnu Emacs editors and support for environment variables.

What's New

1. Support for jEdit pure java editor. To use jEdit either start Jacob with option '-jedit' or edit your ini file and add 'Editor=jEdit' line in [Init] section.
2. Environment variables can be used in properties dialog now. Thanks to Paddy Ramanathan for providing the base functionality for this feature.
3. Support for Gnu Emacs on Unix/Linux. To use Gnu Emacs instead of XEmacs on Unix add line 'Editor=emacs' in [Init] section in your initialization file. Thanks to Max Renkin and Jochen Bedersdorfer for their help.
4. On Unix/Linux XEmacs or Gnu Emacs will be started automatically if they are not already up and running when Jacob starts up.

Fixed Bugs

1. Method history was broken since version 24.86.
2. Under some circumstance XEmacs on Linux didn't get the focus.

Version 25.87

Lists select item that starts with the last key typed.

What's New

1. Packages, classes, and methods lists now scroll to the first item that starts with the last key typed. Thanks to Paddy Ramanathan for the idea and implementation.

Fixed Bugs

1. Bringing XEmacs to front for method selection was disabled until now.

Version 24.86

One bug fix for Windows.

What's New

1. Nothing.

Fixed Bugs

1. Bringing NTEmacs to front disabled for the time being due to buggy behavior.

Version 23.84

Minor improvements and bug fixes.

What's New

1. New field for JAVA_HOME in Project Settings dialog. Now you can develop jdk 1.2 applications while jacob or some of your other projects still use jdk 1.1.
2. Linux only (native code): XEmacs gets the focus after loading a source file. On windows this should work already using gnuclient.

Fixed Bugs

1. Relative project classpaths confuse Jacob and especially XEmacs considerably. Emacs was not able to load a source file more than once. Thanks to Remo Strotkamp for tracking this down.

Version 22.79

Support for IBM's Jikes Debugger, upgraded to final swing version, and some other nice new features.

What's New

1. Upgraded to swing 1.1 with its changed javax.swing.* naming scheme. (This was long overdue).
2. You can now automatically add import statements to your source. Set your emacs cursor above a class name, Jacob looks up the full class name and inserts an import statement at the top of your source file.
3. Selected items in the browser become a little highlighted once you selected them. This way you recognize the classes and methods you use most of the time faster. Thanks to Stephan J. Dick for this idea.
4. Support for IBM's Jikes Debugger. You can start this beast now out of Jacob.
5. History. You can jump back to methods you visited recently. This is especially nice together with the method callees feature, when you jump from one method invocation to the next and realize you ended up in a dead tree.
6. Global text search on your whole project source files. Uses grep and emacs of course.
7. New Class Dependencies tool. Starts with your main class and creates a list with all classes that get invoked statically. You can use this to manually check if you missed distributing a .class file that your project does need. Does not help in case a class gets dynamically loaded.
8. Rudimentary support to add methods to a source file.
9. New startup option '-createmakefile'. This creates a new Makefile for a project in batch mode. Useful to automate publishing process one more step, for example.

Fixed Bugs

1. A jit bug for windows jdk 1.1.7 got fixed thanks to Zoran Pecenovic.
2. Main class can now be selected from any package in the project, not just from the directory where your *.proj file is located.

Version 21.75

Nothing special.

What's New

1. Separation of sourcepath and classpath. By default they are not separated.

Fixed Bugs

1. Add classes has now a progress bar and can be canceled. Additionally, you can interupt the directory scanning process and add source files manually. This prevents a problem with linked directories that lead to infinite cycles.
2. Changing an item in the classpath selection dialog in the first line of the list did not update the list appropriately. I think it was an awt list bug, maybe just on linux.
3. If Jacob gets started and the specified initialisation file does not exists, some default 'Tools' will be installed nevertheless.

Version 20.74

Support for Swing 1.1 beta 2.

What's New

1. Support for Swing 1.1 beta 2.
2. A new class dependencies tool that lists all classes that are referenced statically in the project. Helps to manually controll if you haven't forgotten to include a class in your project.
3. Makefile generator can now be plugged in. Implement jacob.tool.JacobInterface and put the new class name in the init file at key 'MakefileClassName'. Also take a look at the source of jacob/Makefile.java as an example. What someone might want to implement is a generator for cygnus make under Windows. The one that comes with Jacob supports only Symantec or Microsoft make.

Fixed Bugs

1. A frame problem when running Jacob's in debug mode, invoking a tool, and exiting. Well, JFrame does hide itself by default when closing it with the mouse while java.awt.Frame delegates this task to the programmer.
2. Javancss parse error messages where not very meaningful. This was a bug, not a missing feature.
3. Javancss had a problem with '//' comments which did not end with a newline but . That was not all. The resulting Error was not catched, since an Exception was expected. This caused the output window to close inproperly.

Version 19.69

Browsing to method callees is now possible.

What's New

1. Method callees - a list (in a separate window) of methods the currently selected method uses/contains. You can then jump to the source of these used methods and so forth. Very nice to mentally follow the control flow of your program during editing. It works not just in the same class file but for your whole project too. You can also jump once outside the project scope to the source of JDK or Swing method definitions.
2. 'Debug' flag for Jacob's initialisation file or '-debug' startup option can now be used to print out debug information while the program is running.

Fixed Bugs

1. Scroll bug in packages list.
2. Jacob did throw an exception when the Tools menu had no entries and stopped executing. Now the Tools menu will be just omitted in that case and a warning message will be emitted.
3. Height of packages, classes, and methods lists were saved and loaded for each project but not used.

Version 18.66

Jacob uses now Swing 1.0.1 instead of the outdated version 0.5.1. There are also four new tool wrapper classes.

What's New

1. Jacob now uses Swing 1.0.1 instead of version 0.5.1. Thought, swing components use the metal pl&f with its original color theme which looks not always in sync with other awt components. I want to migrate completely over from awt to swing in future versions.
2. New tool wrapper classes. With these you can invoke out of Jacob the following tools (see http://mats.gmd.de/clemens/jacob/help.html#tools for additional information):
   Timelog (to record your development time),
   JavaDump (a tool by Matt T. Yourst which shows the basic structure of a .class file),
   JavaP (Sun's disassembler),
   a unzip wrapper to show the contents of java archives of the project's classpath.
   Jacob now secures that you don't leave it when other tools are still running.
3. Creating a new makefile is now three times faster.

Version 17.64

New interface to the Java lines of code counter (JavaNCSS). Also the user can now invoke other tools from the menu assumed someone wrote a wrapper class for such a tool. So, if anybody wants to have his/her Java application to be invoked out of Jacob's 'Tool' menu, feel free to contact me for further information/documentation.

What's New

1. JavaNCSS is now fully integrated. This means LOC information is not only provided for whole projects but also on a package, class, and method base.
2. New interface to external Java applications. Thought this feature is still undocumented and will be subject to change. I provide the sources for the JavaNCSS wrapper classes as an example.
3. 'NoEmacs' flag for Jacob's initialisation file and '-noemacs' startup option for use without an editor. This feature is planned solely for JavaNCSS users who don't want to use Jacob for programming purposes.
4. A file with absolute file names of all Java source files for the current project gets generated together with a new makefile. These data can be further used by JavaNCSS in batch mode and maybe someone finds a use for some other tool as well.
5. Users who want to have Jacob positioned on the left side of the screen can specify "LeftSided=true" in the "Init" section in Jacob's initialisation file.
6. A new FAQ and a new tutorial entry.

Fixed Bugs

1. Fixed problems with Jacob's screen positioning with Linux KDE window manager (of course, if you configure KDE with "Random Placement" Jacob can't do much :-). Unfortunately Frame positioning on Unix is still quite buggy and depends a lot on the window manager (for example jdk bug #4101910).
2. Now Jacob tests if the directory of a new project does really exist and rejects to open the project otherwise.
3. Methods of anonymous classes are now presented with its class information. Though Jacob still can't distinguish these methods, if there is more than one anonymous class of the same type when it wants to jump to their destination. If you have a run() method and a Runnable.run() method inside the same source file, a work around would be to declare the run() method above the other method. This way Jacob could separate both, but not the other way around. Inner classes work flawlessly (and did before) in this regard.
4. Some colour/layout improvements in the memory and thread dialogs and some speed improvements in the thread dialog.
5. Project headline in ProjectSettings dialog did not change after opening another project.
6. Changing the background colour did not had an effect on some dialogs that were already used in the same session.
7. Minor classpath problem with older project files when moving them onto another system.
8. A redundant import statement was included by the class wizard for classes that extend from a class in the same package.

Version 16.62

New Class Wizard, a nasty bug fix plus minor fixes, and faster appearance of dialogs.

What's New

1. Completely overhauled Class Wizard. It now creates a complete class or interface skeleton. The user can select class and interfaces a new class shall extend/implement out of the classes of the project and the archives in the classpath. Also packages and classes which shall be additionally imported can be selected. All implemented method bodies plus the selected methods the user wants to extend will be generated automatically as well as the import statements that are necessary.
2. Faster Response time of bigger dialogs, but only after the first usage of each. First time appearance can still take some time. (Well, seems to be the GridBagLayout manager and depends on the platform.)

Fixed Bugs

1. Bug in 'Change Classpath'. Did not save the changes. :-(
2. When creating a new makefile and an error message was displayed, the busy dialog wasn't stopped before popping up the message dialog which caused Jacob to hang.
3. File save command was not thread save.
4. Small bug in elisp regular expression for method browsing.
5. Removed needless and wrong menu stdout warning message.

Version 15.60

Minor enhancements and bug fixes.

What's New

1. Optionally methods are displayed in sorted order.
2. Browsing for methods in inner classes does work now. Anonymous classes are not supported.
3. Different classpaths are stored for each project dependent on the operation system, hardware type of the machine, and user. So now you can move your project from Windows to a Unix system and you need to set on each system the classpath only once. Afterwards Jacob will recognize which classpath to use. It's still necessary to update a project after it has been moved onto another system.
4. A more detailed error message is given when updating a project fails.
5. Custom files to load into Emacs in the "Edit" menu like "Makefile" can be set in the initialization file and are not hardcoded any more. But there is no kind of menu editor yet. Users have to edit the initialization file themselves. Submenus are possible.

Fixed Bugs

1. Logic error in the code that loaded project files of earlier Jacob versions.
2. Caught an exception that occurred when the project has been moved, but not updated, and the user tried to add classes to it.

Version 14.58

This version brings mainly bug fixes and focuses on making Jacob and its project handling more platform independent.

What's New

1. You couldn't move a project file to another destination, because absolute path names were used. Now projects can be updated. This means, you can code on one machine, move the code over to a different operating system, change the classpath to the new environment, and adjust the packages and classes automatically to the new settings. Prior to this version, you either had to create a new project file from scratch or you had to use different project files on each system and had to keep them in synchronization. But you still have to change the classpath each time manually.
2. New -inifile command option. Now you can specify a different initialization file at startup. This way you can use the same Jacob class files to start it on a network either from a Windows or a Unix system.
3. Two more ways to extend the automatically generated makefile.
4. A thread and memory monitor dialog (dunno if anyone but me has a use for them, but i like 'em :).

Fixed Bugs

1. A couple of NullPointerExceptions at different circumstances when clicking on list windows when nothing was selected. They shouldn't have stopped Jacob from working, but were pretty ugly and as a by-result disabled "Tools->Javancss Selected..." for whole packages.
2. Fixed a bug in the initialization file class (aka "rojectSuffix=.proj" bug).
3. make zip did not work on unix systems. Now for Unix and Windows the "zip :" rule is created differently. Anyway you can't use the same makefile on different systems but must recreate it for each environment.
4. Found a small lisp regular expression bug. Under some circumstances jumping to a method in Emacs ended up at a place with an invocation of this method instead at it's definition/declaration.

Version 13.56

What's New

1. Method browsing.
2. Now by user intervention packages, classes, and methods windows can be vertically resized. Their height will be stored for each project separately.
3. This is possible due to using swing beta classes.
4. New option Default Methods List Window Height in Preferences Dialog. It's used only when new projects are opened.
5. "File->Export Project File..." function is removed. It existed only for debugging purposes anyway.

Fixed Bugs

1. A single click in packages list was twice interpreted. Furthermore mouseReleased() instead of mouseClicked() is used to identify mouse clicks due to a jdk inaccuracy.
2. Makefile dependencies for classes which don't belong to a package were not displayed appropriate.
3. Loading class source files into Emacs created two additional junk files when the cursor of the java file was already at the end of file.
4. After finishing the "File->Preferences..." dialog the Jacob frame was slightly but very annoyingly at the wrong position. Bug was only on Unix versions present.
5. The class list in the main frame did not always have the exact height. Bug was only on Unix versions present.

Version 12.53

What's New

1. When creating a new makefile, a special window indicates that the program is busy.
2. Double mouse clicks are replaced through single mouse clicks for package and class navigation.
3. New field 'FrameHeight' in '[Init]' section in Jacob initialization file. If this field is empty, the full screen size is used.
4. It's now possible to include your own handwritten makefile in Jacob's generated makefile to always do some extra stuff when creating the project.

Fixed Bugs

1. There was a problem when adding new classes and the project classpath had some kind of redundancy.
2. Closing a color dialog in the Preferences Dialog and pressing the tab-key caused a runtime exception.

Version 11.52

What's New

1. New parameter "Java Interpreter Flags" in "Edit->Project Settings...".
2. A project with a filename which does not match *.proj gets rejected.
3. Additional comment if an added package is not found.
4. The directory in the File Dialog is set to the path of the former project path when opening a new project.

Fixed Bugs

1. It was not possible to properly cancel the process of selecting a new main class (at the Project Settings Dialog).
2. The Start Parameter at the Project Settings Dialog was not cleared when opening a new project.

Version 10.50

Fixed Bugs

1. "Help->Contents..." starts an HTML browser and loads this document into it. Under Unix the generated URL of this local file was wrong.

Version 9.49

What's New

1. New parameter "Javadoc @author" in the "File->Preferences..." dialog. This string is inserted after the @author tag in the documentation header of a new created class/interface using the Class Wizard.
2. Added a menu shortcut for "File->Save".
3. The Gnuclient Flag option in "File->Preferences..." is removed. Jacob now automatically determines if it runs under Windows or Unix and than uses the appropriate options for gnudoit and gnuclient. Gnuclient for Windows allows the option '-F' which sets the focus to Emacs. Jacob uses this option under Windows. Under Unix Jacob only uses gnudoit to load files.
4. HtmlViewer from Frans van Gool replaces the JavaBrowser to view this documentation file (via "Help->Contents..."). It has it's own severe problems. But since the release of JDK 1.1.3, JavaBrowser's scroll bars are even worse.

Fixed Bugs

1. Since JDK 1.1.3 'requestFocus()' does work again.
2. Jacob uses now at startup 'set-frame-width' instead of 'set-screen-width', which was not compatible between GNU Emacs and XEmacs.
3. Additionally, when there are no gnuclient flags specified in the "File->Preferences..." dialog, only gnudoit is used. Under Unix, this is all you need. Windows users should set the gnuclient options '-q' and  '-F'. Than Jacob first uses gnudoit for loading a file, gets the line number the cursor is set and then uses gnuclient '-F' to set the focus to the Emacs frame. This '-F' option is unique to gnuclient for Windows and most people do not need this functionality under Unix.

Version 8.47

What's New

1. New parameter Gnuclient Flags added to the "File->Preferences..." dialog. This lets you control Gnuclient's behavior. The parameter '-q' should always be used (to get rid of the stupid ctrl-x  # behavior). If you use the newest Gnuclient version for Windows 95/NT (Feb. 27 1997), the option '-f' or '-F' is very useful. It gives Emacs the focus after loading a file. This is the only way to change the focus from Jacob to Emacs, since the Emacs Lisp function 'focus-frame' is not implemented.

Fixed Bugs

1. The Start Parameter (from the "Edit->Project Settings..." dialog) was not reset when loading an project which was saved with an older Jacob version.
2. Empty RCS keyword 'Header' in the Main Class source file was not noticed when creating a Makefile.

Version 7.42

What's New

1. A Class Wizard lets you create class/interface templates.
2. Some default sub directories can be specified in the "File->Preferences..." dialog. Whenever a new project is created, these directories will be created in the same directory, where the project '.proj' file resides.
3. New parameter 'Start Parameter' in the "Edit->Project Settings..." dialog.

Fixed Bugs

1. Fatal Bug occurred under some rare circumstances at the 'Add Classes' procedure.

Version 6.40

What's New

1. Help file is viewed with the help of the JavaBrowser (package) by Alexey Goloshubin and Jeremy Cook.

Fixed Bugs

1. Inserting a package that should resides inside the "." package was not inserted at the correct place in the internal package tree.
2. Javancss did not parse synchronized classes.
3. There was a bug in Javancss related to inner classes and interfaces.
4. There was a Message in German instead of English when creating a new Makefile and one existed already.
5. There was a bug in the created Makefile in the 'zip' section, when using classes that don't belong to a package.

Version 5.39

What's New

1. Now tested under Solaris. Unfortunately it is still not tested in conjunction with Gnuserv under that system. (Please report if you encounter any problems with it.) But there are still two bugs remaining that don't exist under Windows 95.

   -	After finishing the "File->Preferences..." dialog the Jacob frame is slightly but very annoyingly at the wrong position. As a workaround, just restart Jacob. The dialog won't be used that often.
   -	The class list in the main frame does not always have the exact height. If the Background and ListBackground color parameter do have the same value, it is not so obviously visible.

2. New option (background color) in the "File->Preferences..." dialog.
3. Changed the default colors to gray (background) and black (foreground).

Fixed Bugs

1. In the configuration management section of the created makefile a tag is inserted for every item of the project. The tag normally consists of the project name and a version number. This version number is taken from the RCS Header field in the project's main class. If there is no Header field, the count started from 2 instead of 1. (But it would be still better to use no tag at all in this case.)
2. Create Makefile resulted in a fatal error when no RCS header field was inside the project's main class and a project tag was specified :-(

Version 4.34

What's New

1. The "File->Preferences..." dialog is now used to change the setup parameter (instead of direct editing of the "jacob.ini" file). This will make the setup process more user friendly (especially figuring out the correct Emacs and Jacob frame width values).
2. Relative components of the classpath variable ('.' and '..') will be replaced by their canonical paths instead of only absolute paths on start up.

Fixed Bugs

1. Did not distribute the pattern package from Steven R. Brandt. This resulted in a ClassNotFound exception when creating a makefile and both a main class and a project tag was specified. The pattern package was used only at one occasion. The needed Regex functionality is now replaced through some ordinary functions, so there is no need to redistribute that package any more.
2. The maximum number of old files that are remembered in the File menu could be temporarily exceed the allowed value.

Version 3.32

What's New

1. The "Edit->Project Settings..." dialog assembles the old "Edit->Set Main Class..." and "Edit->Set CLASSPATH..." dialogs together with the options "Java Compiler Flags" and "Project Tag".
2. When jacob is started for the first time, a welcome message with some basic guiding pops up.
3. Relative components of the classpath variable ('.' and '..') will be replaced by their absolute paths on start up. Otherwise it can lead to problems, because of an bug in the Java FileDialog class that lets you change the current path for the whole application.
4. There are more screen shots of menus and dialogs provided.

Fixed Bugs

1. Changed parameter in mv.bat.

Version 2.30

What's New

1. Export project file to ascii file is now possible.
2. For each project the 'classpath' variable can be set via menu.
3. A Project can now have class files that don't belong to a package.
4. The default JavacFlags parameter from the jacob.ini file now contains the '-deprecation' flag.

Fixed Bugs

1. Some spelling error were corrected on this page. (I am shure there remained quite a lot. If you are a teacher don't hold yourself back and drop me a line : )
2. Under JDK 1.1.1 the space between the package and the class list was too small.
3. Deleting a package but viewing a sub package resulted in a crash.
4. Deleting a package that consisted of the project's main class could also result in a crash.
5. Deleting a class crashes the application, if this class was the last class in a package and this package was viewed in the browser.
6. In the created 'Makefile' under the clean section the last 'cd' command always pointed to the same location.
7. Adding a new package and a sub package of this was already there, resulted in two versions of the sub package at two different locations in the tree.

Version 1.25

Version 1.23

Released under GNU GPL license for the first time.

What's New

1. Freeware GNU GPL license.
2. Javadoc plugin.
3. Plugin creates jar archive for project.
4. 'Add Method...' wizard lets you specify parameters and creates empty method comment as well.
5. A Java console shows Jacob's standard output and error messages. It's useful only for debugging Jacob itself.
6. Native code to bring Emacs to the front on Linux is not invoked by default anymore.

Fixed Bugs

1. Created project makefile coudn't handle '$' signs in file names on unix.