[news.eclipse.tools.jdt] Re: How to access the ASTs that Eclipse uses?

[georgeganea@xxxxxxxxx (George Ganea)]

Olivier Thomann wrote:

> George Ganea a écrit :
> >    My question is, can I skip this step, does the Eclipse IDE have 
> > somewere all the ASTs form a given JavaProject, or does every plugin, 
> > (e.g. the editor) needs to parse it's own ASTs when it's needs to.
> I believe only the current editor has its AST available.
> Having all the ASTs in memory simply would not scale.

Ok, thank you very much for your answer, I was hoping I could get those 
ASTs for free... Oh well, I'll just have to parse the java files for 
myself...

I was amazed how quickly the SearchEngine (org.eclipse.jdt.core.search) 
returns the results, that's why I thought that the ASTs should be already 
there, but then I looked at the source code and noticed it too uses a sort 
of a parser...

http://kickjava.com/src/org/eclipse/jdt/internal/core/search/BasicSearchEngine.java.htm


Thank you all,
George