Java updates for Visual Studio Code adds Smart Selection API

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  • July 24, 2019
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As summer heats up, news from VS Code continues to roll in. Microsoft announced the July update for Java on Visual Studio Code on July 22, 2019. This update includes some new features that rolled out for Visual Studio Code in the past few weeks.

Do you use Java on VS Code? Java support on VS Code uses a variety of extensions that expand VS Code’s features and turn it into a lightweight Java development environment. With the use of these extensions, VS Code supports dev tools, including popular frameworks such as Maven and Spring Boot, debuggers, a linter, and more.

Supported features include code editing and navigation, running and debugging, unit testing, Azure Functions, IntelliSense, project management, and more.

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Extensions for VS Code. Source.

July 2019 updates

This month adds new refactoring features, the Smart Selection API, and some improvements. Let’s take a look at the newest July features and enhancements:

  • New refactor feature: Trigger rename after extract to variable/constant/method. Users will no longer need to use a rename action, saving themselves a few steps.
  • Extract to field: New refactor added. Select and expression and extract to field from a menu. Selecting a variable declaration will convert the variable to field.
  • Smart Selection/Semantic Selection API support: The recently added VS Code feature now supports Java code. Expand the selection range of semantic info with Shift + Alt + → (on Windows devices) and shrink the range with Shift + Alt + ← .
  • Maven improvements: Several new improvements added, including the ability to support archetype versions during project creation, and Maven projects will now use the latest Execution Environment when the source/target does not yet support it.
  • Gradle preferences: New Gradle preferences, including arguments to pass to Gradle, JVM arguments to pass to Gradle, and setting for GRADLE_HOME.
  • Checkstzle support: The new update supports loading CheckStyle Configuration via HTTP URL.

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Smart Selection example. Source.

Preparing the dev environment

Prerequisites for using Java on Visual Studio Code include the Java SE Development Kit (JDK) installed on your local development environment.

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Users will also need to configure their environment, by setting the JAVA_HOME environment variable.

Or, Windows users can download the Java Extension Pack, which includes popular, commonly-used extensions for Java development, including a test runner, support by Red Hat, and a Maven project explorer.

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