Re: Is there an easy way to find the right class?

Patricia Shanahan wrote:

If not, I google:

java whatever

where "whatever" is a description of what I want to do.

Patricia

But wouldn't it be great if there was a database or website where you could go and type in "what class for reading a text file" and the site/DB would return a list of classes for me to investigate.

I typed that exact phrase into google and got back

http://java.sun.com/docs/books/tutorial/essential/io/
http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.4.2/docs/api/
http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/iadthelp/v6r0/index.jsp?topic=/com.ibm.etools.iseries.orxw.doc/orxw_prg02.htm
http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Cookbook/Python/Recipe/439045

and a whole bunch of other sites... only the first two have anything to do with Java and the j2se 1.4.2 is obsolete if you are developing on anything higher

Now if I try your suggestion: "java what class for reading a text file"

http://www.javapractices.com/Topic42.cjp
http://java.sun.com/docs/books/tutorial/essential/io/
http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.4.2/docs/api/
http://forum.java.sun.com/thread.jspa?threadID=682804&tstart=30
http://forum.java.sun.com/thread.jspa?threadID=709772&messageID=4109098

Here is a program to purports to be a "class finder"

http://www.programurl.com/java-class-finder.htm

sounds like a glorified "grep" to me. But it still doesn't help me.
I could host a website that would let you type in a search criteria and return a set of classes that meet the criteria. But what jdk would I use? And would I include the various (and plethorous) frameworks in the search?
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