Geoff Prewett -- CodeFalcon

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Have you ever stepped into a large project and needed to quickly read through code, understand execution paths, and jump between base and derived classes?	Browse code quickly.
Have you ever been looking to see if a class has a certain function, and it does not, so you look in the base class, and neither does it, so you repeat ... ?	See base class functions all at once.
Have you ever needed to browse backwards through code, to the function that called this one, and then to the function that called that one, and so on?	Easily click on callers.

CodeFalcon is a code browser and documentation system for Java code intended for internal developers of a project, who may need to learn and use a large object hierarchy that has limited documentation. It has many useful features for developers, such as:

Clickable class hierarchy
Complete list of functions, including inherited functions
Complete source code for each function
Function calls, member variables, and object types linked to their definition pages.
Call tree for each function
Mouseovers of objects and functions in the code view show the object type and function definition

This project also contains a utility to create a dependency graph that can reveal the relative importance of each class in understanding the code and as well as dependency cycles. Learn more!

See a live demo (uses the DiskCleaner 0.5 source)
Download the source: codefalcon-0.8.tar.gz

License

CodeFalcon is free to use and modify, but is under copyright and cannot be redistributed outside of your organization (including both binaries and source). The HTML output of CodeFalcon is owned by you and may be used however you wish. There is no warranty, express or implied. However, I do hope that you find it useful.

Limitations

Overloaded functions are not supported yet
Variables declared in the first argument of a for loop do not have receive a mouseover type.
Inner classes and code references to them are sometimes missing links or mouseover information.
JVM functions do not have mouseover information, since the JVM files are not parsed.
CodeFalcon has only been tested with Linux and Firefox. It will probably compile and run with little effort on Windows, but the HTML output may not work properly in Internet Explorer, particularly versions before 8.