Netbeans IDE tools such as refactoring, find usage, call hierarchy

[ivan-velikanov]

Around July 6, I had asked this question in Netbeans github project.
apache/netbeans#8634

And then I was kindly led by @Chris2011 to this claude-code-netbeans plugin which is amazing.

Continuing from my original "wish-list", I was wondering if there are any plans of exposing powerful tools that are already there in netbeans through this mcp ide claude code plugin you made? Like Netbeans provides a powerful java language server to vscode, the same (or more) could be extended to claude code. As we know when claude directly refactors it consumes tokens, whereas netbeans might directly do a lot of refactoring for free, surely much faster, and perhaps often with lesser bugs.

Also tools like find usage and call hierarchy might give claude code a LOT of understanding about the code and help it debug rather than wasting time.

What do you feel @emilianbold , any plans along these lines?

[Chris2011]

First I would say please create a concrete ticket for each of your wish. This ticket here should be converted to a discussion when @emilianbold enables the discussion section.

[emilianbold]

This plugin exists because I was curious why the Claude protocol used with IDEs is not public. So I set about finding out which protocol it uses (it's actually a simple MCP variation).

My goal would be to make it on-par with the VSCode plugin, which has basic text-editing features. It does not do refactoring via the IDE.

I do agree that it would be a very cool thing and I would trust NetBeans to do a much more reliable refactoring than an AI agent. It could be as easy as just providing this tool to Claude and perhaps it will pick it up. It is worth some experimenting, assuming we figure out how to call the refactoring side correctly.