Christoph Läubrich

But maybe there is more an intrinsic problem as I getting sometime spurious error also on [other places](https://github.com/jboss-javassist/javassist/issues/362).

In general I'd like to reuse the parsing glue as well as generation of code snippets. Currently we parse that data by our self for the cucumber-eclipse plugin, the problem...

I'm sure your using some kind of IDE for development (maybe Idea or Eclipse), so simply think about what would you expect from an IDE to help you write Java...

Okay so you suggest to use something like this: ``` Runtime runtime = cucumber.runtime.Runtime.builder().withAdditionalPlugins(new StepDefinitionReporter() { @Override public void stepDefinition(StepDefinition stepDefinition) { // do something with it } }).build(); ```...

That might be possible but I would prefer not to replicate all the mechnism. If JUnit an TestNG already do this, wouldn't it be valid to provide reuseable API that...

I have started to investigate using StepDefinition from event, the problem is that I can't get access to the actual method, do you think it would be ok to add...

@mpkorstanje I need it to show in code editor or jump to the location. I just don't want to parse strings I wan't to use standard java api from objects...

1. If I have all method information available (modifier, parameters, name, class that defines the method, annotations) I can match them with the given source AST 2. That is true...

btw [Groovy-Support is also on the todo-list](https://github.com/cucumber/cucumber-eclipse/issues/275), so if this would work on the groovy-backend as well this would be nice.

You can use the cucumber-main as a blueprint and adjust it to your needs. Another way would be to call the Main via javacode and passing the necessary parameters but...