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methods are public. The class also contains a large number of lines of
comments.
The metrics extracted from the sample classes are shown in Table 7.1.
These classes are extracted from jEdit 4.3 (i.e., an open source
programmer's text editor implemented in Java). Thanks to the Weber and
Penn approach the tree of each class maintains a good visual plausibility
and naturalism.
Fig. 7.1. jEdit 4.3::JarBundler. The tree represents a class with a high number of
lines of code, a huge number of lines of comment, and a high number of methods
(both public and private).
Figure 7.2. jEdit 4.3::BrowserIORequest. The tree represents a class with a small
number of lines of code, a small number of lines of comment, a small number of
total methods, and few attributes.