Java classes and package renaming tool?

[Alex Hunsley]

I'm refactoring some existing java code soon, and I need to rename quite
a few classes and a few packages. Is there some sort of tool available
that renames classes/packages by renaming the actual files, and then
corrects the references in the code? If not, I was thinking of writing a
perl script to do such a thing (regexps would be handy, if dangerous!).

But I don't want to reinvent the wheel if it's already there....

alex

 

[Michael Borgwardt]

I'm refactoring some existing java code soon, and I need to rename quite
a few classes and a few packages. Is there some sort of tool available
that renames classes/packages by renaming the actual files, and then
corrects the references in the code?

eclipse does this quite well.

 

[Juha Laiho]

I'm refactoring some existing java code soon, and I need to rename quite
a few classes and a few packages. Is there some sort of tool available
that renames classes/packages by renaming the actual files, and then
corrects the references in the code? If not, I was thinking of writing a
perl script to do such a thing (regexps would be handy, if dangerous!).

If I'm not mistaken, this action of renaming classes and packages,
moving classes from package to another, and even rearranging methods
between classes is called refactoring. So, you might find something
you're looking for by keyword "refactoring tools". As I understand,
the Eclipse IDE (that was suggested in another response) has rather
good refactoring support.