[news.eclipse.technology] New Code formatter? Why?

["Robert Simmons" <derisor@xxxxxxxx>]

From: http://download2.eclipse.org/downloads/drops/S-3.0M4-200310101454/eclipse-news-part1-M4.html

 

The new Java code formatter can be enabled via the Java > Work in Progress > Code Formatter preference page. This formatter will be much more flexible than its predecessors, although you'll have to take that on faith until its new preference page is ready.

 

I am currious why they are bothering re-implementing this when there are already a couple of formatters available and, in fact, potentially the best formatter ever, Jalopy. Wouldnt it make more sense to try to integrate Jalopy more tightly into Eclipse and build on their successes?

 

-- Kraythe