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by sitkack 4275 days ago
I wrote one of these back in 2000. We had a huge WebLogic app with 10s if not more developers rotate in and out of it over many months. So I wrote a tool that did an n-gram search over the codebase and hyper link all of the lines in an exception trace to those files on viewcvs (now viewcv). Paste in a stack trace and immediately start navigating the source repo. I would have like to have made exception capture automatically submit it to the site so we could measure exception popularity.

Edit: the ngram part was so that you could paste in random snippets of code and get hits in the version control store to start navigating. It was strictly needed for the exception hyperlinking.