When we introduced the powerful Fernflower de-compiler to our extensions in our last blog<\/a>, we received great feedback from the community. However, there were still some enhancements we can make based on the current experience. In our latest experience, we have improved the support for these two major cases:<\/p>\n Case 1: Automatically prompt to allow developer to switch decompiled source code and original downloaded source code<\/strong><\/p>\n This enhancement will allow the developer to switch between decompiled source code and downloaded source code with a pop-up from the Visual Studio Code. Here’s a demo.<\/p>\n Case 2 : Support “Attach Source” operation so developer can see the original source code if needed.<\/strong><\/p>\n Sometimes rather than the de-compiled code, the developer wants to attach the original source code and bringing out the context menu and clicking on “Attach Source”, the developer can easily do so. Here’s a demo.<\/p>\n We hope by improving the UX for these two cases, our extensions can further increase the productivity when developers are using the decompiling features.<\/p>\n In addition to decompiler experience improvements, we have also added a minor enhancement on our Maven for Java extension. In some cases developers just want to quickly create a Maven project without any archetypes such as a Hello World program. This workflow was enabled in our recent released. When creating the Maven project using the extension, developers just need to select “No Archetype” from the dropdown, and a basic project will be created in seconds. Here’s a demo.<\/p>\n Apart from the updates above, we have recently saw from our user feedback that our semantic highlighting will get out of sync from time to time, causing inconvenience when typing code. We have spend some time to investigate this and delivered fix for the issue. Here are the PRs to address them:<\/p>\n To use all features mentioned above, please download and install Extension Pack for Java<\/a> on Visual Studio Code.<\/p>\n If you are a Spring developer working on a Spring Boot application, you can also download the Spring Boot Extension Pack<\/a> for specialized Spring experience.<\/p>\n![\"Switch](\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/java\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/51\/2023\/08\/switchtodwnloadedsrouce.gif\")
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