Smart Code Completion

Boost productivity with AI-powered code completion, offering context-aware suggestions for completing code, renaming variables and methods, and improving log messages or comments.

How to use: Press Ctrl+Space to see a list of relevant suggestions.

Method Enhancement

Improve the logic, structure, or efficiency of methods using AI-powered enhancements tailored to your project's specific requirements.

How to use: Highlight any method and press the hint: "AI: Enhance the method"

Javadoc Creation

Automatically generate Javadoc for any method, class, or interface using AI assistance, ensuring comprehensive and well-structured documentation based on the code context.

How to use: Highlight any class and press the hint: "AI: Create Javadoc using assistance"

Javadoc Improvement

Improve and enhance existing Javadoc comments by leveraging AI suggestions, ensuring clarity, accuracy, and best practices.

How to use: Highlight any class and press the hint: "AI: Enhance existing Javadoc"

Variable Naming Suggestions

Automatically suggest more meaningful and contextually appropriate variable names, enhancing code readability and maintainability.

How to use: Highlight any variable/param and press the hint: "AI: Improve variable name using assistance"

Grammar Fixes

Detect and correct grammar issues within comments, Javadoc, or other textual components in your code, ensuring professional and polished documentation.

How to use: Select any String literal text and press the hint: "AI: Fix grammar issues using assistance"

Text Enhancement

Improve the quality and readability of textual content (such as comments, documentation, or log messages) by providing more concise and impactful alternatives.

How to use: Select any String literal text and press the hint: "AI: Enhance text quality using assistance"

Code Line Enhancement

Suggest enhancements or optimizations for individual lines of code, ensuring concise, efficient, and maintainable expressions.

How to use: Select any single line snippet and press the hint: "AI: Enhance a single line of code"

Learn about Class

Provide insights and detailed explanations about a specific class, including its methods, properties, and usage within the project and continue chat to ask specific queries.

How to use: Highlight the class name and press the hint: "AI: Learn about Class"

Generate Test Cases

Automatically generate test cases for your classes or methods based on contextual hints provided by the AI Assistant. This feature streamlines the process of writing tests, ensuring that your code is thoroughly tested and adheres to best practices.

How to use: Highlight any class or method and press the hint: "AI: Generate Test for Class or Method"

Project Context-Aware AI Chat

Engage in conversations with the AI that take into account the entire project context, allowing for comprehensive insights and support tailored to your project's structure and components.

How to use: Right-click on the project and select "AI Assistant" to initiate the AI chat while the project is open, enabling you to receive context-aware responses.

Java Packages & Classes Context-Aware AI Chat

Interact with the AI regarding specific Java packages or classes, gaining insights and recommendations that reflect the context of the particular package or class you are focused on.

How to use: Select the desired packages or classes, right-click, and choose "AI Assistant" to start the chat and receive tailored responses.

Web Development Context-Aware AI Chat (HTML, CSS, JS, JSF)

Communicate with the AI regarding web application components such as HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and JSF, enabling context-aware support and recommendations specific to web development.

How to use: Select the webapp dir or any child directory, right-click, and choose "AI Assistant" to start the chat while working on web files to receive relevant insights.

General AI Chat (No Context Required)

Utilize the AI chat feature without the context of your code or project, allowing for general inquiries or discussions that are not tied to specific code elements, making it cost-effective and faster.

How to use: Click the Jeddict button from the top toolbar.

AI Commit Message

Generate meaningful commit messages based on the differences detected in your Git repository. This feature analyzes the `git diff` and `git status` to create concise and informative commit messages, streamlining your version control workflow.

How to use: Right-click on the project and select "AI Commit Message" to generate a commit message automatically.

SQL AI Chat Assistant

To access the SQL AI Chat Assistant, navigate to Services > Databases > Register DB in Apache NetBeans. Right-click on your database connection and select AI Assistant. This action will launch the AI Chat Window, providing a contextual background based on your database. The AI will generate results that appear in the SQL editor, enabling you to utilize AI for smart inline completion of SQL queries directly within the same chat window, thereby enhancing your productivity and efficiency in database management.

SQL Inline Completion with AI

Your coding experience is further enhanced with SQL inline completion with AI, which is available in the Execute Command Window. To open this functionality, go to Services > Databases > Register DB in Apache NetBeans, right-click on your database connection, and select Execute Command.... A new window will open where you can compose SQL queries. Here, AI-powered inline completion suggestions will assist you as you write, and you can execute the query in the same window to instantly view the results, streamlining your workflow and reducing the time spent on query formulation.

Jeddict AI Settings

You can access the Jeddict AI settings panel from the application's main settings or configuration menu, typically found under Tools > Options > Jeddict AI Assistant

Providers

The plugin supports configurable AI models and keys, allowing developers to seamlessly integrate their OpenAI accounts and other providers. Ensure you have the required API key and model based on the selected provider for optimal integration.

Supported providers include:

• OPEN_AI: Models Documentation, API Keys
• CUSTOM_OPEN_AI: OpenAI configurations with a custom provider URI.
• GOOGLE: Models Documentation, API Keys
• DEEPINFRA: Models Documentation, API Keys
• DEEPSEEK: API Documentation, API Keys
• GROQ: Models Documentation, API Keys
• MISTRAL: Models Documentation, API Keys
• ANTHROPIC: Models Documentation, API Keys
• OLLAMA: Models Documentation
• LM_STUDIO: Models Documentation
• GPT4ALL: Models Documentation

Disabling AI Assistance

If you wish to disable the Jeddict AI Assistant, navigate to Tools > Options > Editor > AI Assistance and uncheck the Activate AI Assistance checkbox.

To bypass AI assistance while it remains activated, use CTRL+ALT+SPACE instead of CTRL+SPACE for inline suggestions.

File Extensions to Include in Context

The File Extensions to Include in Context setting allows you to specify which file types the AI assistant should consider when analyzing your codebase. This helps provide more accurate suggestions based on the specified file types.

You can enter multiple file extensions separated by commas. For example:

java, php, jsf, kt, groovy, scala, xml, json, yaml, yml, properties, txt, md, js, ts, css, scss, html, xhtml, sh, bat, sql, jsp, rb, cs, go, swift, rs, c, cpp, h, py

Directories and Files to Exclude from Context

The Directories and Files to Exclude from Context setting allows you to specify specific directories or files that the AI assistant should ignore during its analysis. This is particularly useful to enhance performance and accuracy by concentrating on the most relevant sections of your codebase.

This setting is applicable at the Project Level within the AI Chat. To optimize results, please list the directories and files you wish to exclude, ensuring that the AI assistant focuses on the most pertinent data for your project.

Context Scope (Default)

In the settings, configure the Context Scope to define the range of classes the AI Assistant will analyze. Options include:

• Current Class: Focus on the current class being analyzed.
• Referenced Classes: Include all classes referenced from the current class.
• Current Package: Examine all classes within the current package, as well as those referenced by the current class.
• Entire Project: Cover all classes in the entire project.

Context Scope for Variable Name, Method Name, String Literals

Configure the Context Scope specifically for naming variables, methods, or generating string/text blocks, as these typically do not require a large context scope. Options include:

• Current Class: Focus on the current class being analyzed.
• Referenced Classes: Include all classes referenced from the current class.
• Current Package: Examine all classes within the current package, as well as those referenced by the current class.
• Entire Project: Cover all classes in the entire project.

Show Snippet with Description

Enable the option to show a description alongside inline code snippets for improved understanding of AI-generated suggestions. This helps explain the reasoning behind suggested code.

Generate Test Case Prompt

Type the prompt for generating test cases based on your class context or project. For example: Generate TestNG tests with Arquillian