Zeta Code

Go from a 10,000 ft view of the entire project down to any file simply by zooming. Zeta Code is a ZUI for programmers.

Languages/Frameworks Supported: Java/Maven, Ruby/Gems

• Java/Maven: Tested on itself
• Ruby/Gems: Tested on the Rails project

Features

• right-click anywhere to get the menu
• click on a node to select it.
• ctrl-click on a node to open an editor for it.
• Three different ways of organizing nodes: Bloom, Grid, random
• Choose any directionality: left-right, down, up, right-left
• Time-Travel: gource-like animation of commit history (git)
• Neo-Edit Editor with syntax highlighting and many other features
• Press F6 in editor for runtime-debugging

Future Plans

• Support for more languages and frameworks
• Zoom-in/out using the mouse-wheel
• Tasks/Working-sets: ability to save a group of files and return to them at any time.
• Dependencies: Easily manage your dependencies. See which code is using what, and easily search for existing open-source software.
• History: Forward/Backward history.
• Testing: Integration with modern testing frameworks like JUnit, TestNG, and spock.
• Plugins: for version-control, compiling, testing, etc. It will be fully extensible.
• Docs: ability to quickly see code-documentation by hovering, etc.
• Call-heirarchy: see the methods called by current method.
• Refactoring: ability to rename methods, move methods, etc.
• Preview: show real values in real-time ("coding without blinders")

Usage

First you need to compile using Maven.

mvn package

Unzip the zip-with-lib, then you can just run the resulting jar:

cd target/
unzip z-0.1-beta-3-zip-with-lib.zip
java -jar z-0.1-beta-3/z-0.1-beta-3.jar

Known Issues

This code is still in beta, so use with caution. It is not done.

License

Copyright 2012, Adam L. Davis. All rights reserved. Made Available for use under a BSD-style license. See LICENSE