eclipse paranamer plugin or something

Question

I currently use paranamer.codehaus.org to generate the functions parameter names. Everything works greate except that I need to run paranamer after every code change after eclipse builds the class. I have to manually run it. I already use the maven plugin. but it does not get invoked when eclipse builds the file.

Is there any way to tell eclipse to auto invoke paranamer after building a class? whether using a plugin or any post building event or something? anything other than me manually invoking it everytime?

Answer 1

I'm not sure what you mean, but I guess that builders could be what you are looking for. In your eclipse project you can define builders that can run post-build. Ant for example has a builder you can use to run ant scripts.

See for example this article or the eclipse help

Edit: Oh ok, so paranamer is a plugin, I assumed that was a typo for parameter :) But that makes it even easier. For each project, create an ant script that runs the paranamer, as described on the webpage. Then add a ant builder to the project that runs after each build.