posted on Thursday, October 07, 2004 10:00 AM
by
demiliani
A Search Engine for Java Code
IBM and the U.C. Berkeley Computer Science Department are working on a great idea: a Search Engine for Java code.
If you're a Java developer and you're searching for a piece of code useful for your work, you can use this tool to perform a quick search on the net 
. Code-named "Prospector," the engine seeks out code examples that use any or all of J2SE 1.4, Eclipse 3.0, and Eclipse GEF (Graphical Editing Framework) code.
This is a great idea... how many times do you have searched for a piece of code on the net? Sometimes is really difficult to find what you want and the main reason is that there is not a central code repository that anyone can access freely (and this is not only for the Java world but for every programming platforms). This project could be the solution.
What about a Search Engine for .NET code? 