JDeveloper Shortcut Keys: Reformat All Files in your Project

When writing Java code, it is a good practice to reformat your code before committing it to a source control system. In JDeveloper, you can put this in your save actions, however, JDeveloper will then also reformat all your XML code, this is not always what you want, plus it is a lot slower than reformatting only the Java code.

When in your Java file, you can use the right mouse menu, or the shortcut keys to reformat the java file you are currently working on, this is 'Ctrl' + 'Alt' + 'L' on windows or '⌘' + '⇧' + 'L' on mac.

However, when you change something in your code style, you probably do not want to go by every file individually to reformat the code. Good thing is that JDeveloper can also reformat a whole project at once.
This is not really well documented and it is not in the right mouse window either, but when you select a project in your Application Window and press the shorcut key for reformat, JDeveloper will reformat the whole selected project for you.

JDeveloper Shortcut Keys: Select in Application Window

In more complex projects with a lot of files, you can sometimes lose track of where the files are located. This can be helpful if you have your files saved in a logical package structure. After looking up a file, for example by using the Go to File shortcut key, it might be helpful to know where this file is located.

Well, in JDeveloper there is a shortcut key to find the file in your Application Window. This is 'Alt' + 'Home' on windows or '⌘' + 'Home' on mac. 

As you can see the file is selected and displayed in the Application Window.

JDeveloper Shortcut Keys: Go To File

I have been noticing that a lot of developers are either struggling with finding files in JDeveloper or taking a long time to open all the packages and browsing to the files. However, JDeveloper has a lot of shortcut keys that come in handy.

First of, a shortcut key to 'Go To Java Type', I think most developers know this one. It is the 'ctrl' + '-' on windows or '⌘' + 'J' on mac, you will get this window:

However, did you also know the search is CamelCaseSensitive? It is a very neat trick, imagine you have connected your ADF sources and want to look up the PageFlowScopeMap in the 'org.apache.myfaces.trinidadinternal.context' package.
You can open the 'Go to Java Type' screen and start typing page, but a lot of java classes will come up:

As said the search box understands CamelCase, so if you instead start typing the fist capital of each CamelCase word, in this case 'PFSM' (PageFlowScopeMap) JDeveloper will understand:

How cool is that?

Now this is not where it ends, instead of only searching for Java Types, you can search over all your files in JDeveloper, using the shortcut key: 'ctrl' + 'alt' + '-' on windows or '⌥' + '⌘' + '-' on mac. The following window will popup:

In here you can search for any file, but again you can also search CamelCase, for example, in case I want to search my ViewControllerBundle.properties file:

Now, in both windows you can also use wildcards (*), however the CamelCase will not work in combination with a wild card anymore.