After a long break, I’m back. In the meantime, I immigrated to a new country, changed a couple of jobs, working on a new business plan and refreshed myself for new challenges in life.
With this post, I’m changing the pattern of my blogs; from long well written and 3/4 blogs a year to short quick blogs with enough meat to justify a post 🙂
So here I am.
I’m a big IntelliJ Idea fan but as a startup, I need to be able to do quick edits, configurations here and there and quick feedback loops for the changes. Therefore, I’m going with an old favorite editor, Notepad++, and added a little macro that can compile/run java programs.
1) Press F6
2) type
npp_switch Main.java
cd ..\..\..\
javac -sourcepath src -classpath classes;lib\*.jar src\com\myfirm\*.java -d classes
java -classpath classes;lib\*.jar com.myfirm.”$(NAME_PART)”
[N.B. dont forget to press <enter> after every command]
3) Press Save… and name the script java_runner
4) Invoke by Ctrl-F6 on any class of the same project
Job’s done!
Assumptions:
1) It requires that all java source files are placed with src/com/myfirm directory
2) The directory classes is already created at the level of src directory
3) There is a class that ends with a name Main
4) The required libraries are placed in the lib directory
5) All java etc environment variables are set properly
6) Notepad++ menu Plugins–>NppExec [Save all files on execute, Follow $(CURRENT_DIRECTORY)] are checked
Cheers!
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