Is there a way to apply a refactoring script just for its side-effects?

Question

I\'ve got a library that was changed to introduce a factory method to replace a constructor (the reasons aren\'t important right now, in the current case it was for improved typ

Answer 1

I think you will have to write your own refactoring plugin. The tests for org.eclipse.jdt.ui.tests.refactoring are an interesting place to start.

Some interesting reads on the topic:

• http://www.eclipse.org/articles/article.php?file=Article-Unleashing-the-Power-of-Refactoring/index.html
• http://www.eclipse.org/articles/Article-LTK/ltk.html