Eclipse autocompletion is dead

Try this simple example:

public class Main {
    
    public static class Item {}

    public static void main(String[] args) {
        Item myItem = new Item();
        // enter "add" and ctrl+space
    }

    private static void add(Item item) {
    }
    
}

If you do it in clean installation of Eclipse the add(myItem) will be added, which I expect. After you install AJDT it will be add(item) - just the name of method argument. Stupid and annoying. It trippled the effort on coding - first you have to enter obvious arguments yourself and moreover you have to correct the meaningless “best guesses” in case you do not have a source for the library you are calling. In this case argument names will be… you guessed it - arg0, arg1, etc.

After installing AJDT you will never get reasonable autocompletion for method and constructor parameters. Luckily I’ve found a simple solution - go to Window/Properties/JDT Weaving and turn it off. Then all of a sudden autocompletion is back again :) It seems that weaving features of AJDT are not affected by this button.

PS: Corresponding bug was recorded. Waiting for the fix.

PPS: Wow, they fixed it the day I reported the bug :)

First published on the old anydoby.com blog on 2009-06-30.