JIDEAL (Java IDE Abstraction Layer) provides a
common interface to the most important API parts
of IDEs like Together, JBuilder, Forte, etc.
Besides support for menus, projects and so on, it
contains an abstract Java syntax tree, which
allows access to source code and creating source
code. The layer consists of the interfaces and
abstract classes for IDE add-ons on one side and
plugins for supporting each IDE on the other side.
Thus developers need only to develop for JIDEAL
one time instead of customizing their tools for
every IDE they want to support. There is also a
reference plugin allowing parsing and generating
Java classes without IDE based on a
javacc-generated parser.
