VDF Tools for Eclipse
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The VDF Tools for Eclipse, written by T. U. Resheim started out as a simple JavaCC grammar for FMAC/ICODE in 2003. In 2004 it was decided that it should be put to use, but since it was clear that it would not be a good idea to use this low-level language parser to provide the foundations, the parser was rewritten for VDF7 using ANTLR.
While being a hobby project, the feature set still grew steadily and in February 2005 the first trials were done at Emma EDB AS. One year later it was ready and the 1.0 version was released.
VDF Tools works more or less like any programming language IDE. It has a parser that builds an index or metadata model of the code. These data forms the foundation of a number of features such as:
- Class hierarchy browser
- VDF Navigator
- Symbol table
- Syntax colored editor
- Context sensitive content assist/intellisense
- Database view
