Re: Is JDEE moribund? Is Emacs a viable Java devel environment?

[Lennart Borgman]

On Fri, Apr 17, 2009 at 9:50 PM, Tassilo Horn <tassilo@member.fsf.org> wrote:
> Richard Riley <rileyrgdev@googlemail.com> writes:
>
> Hi Richard,
>
>>> http://dir.gmane.org/search.php?match=jdee
>>
>> I'm wondering what that offers over the mailing list? It seems pretty
>> dead. In fact it is the mailing list isn't it?
>
> Yep, it is.
>
> I hope someone starts writing an emacs interface to Eclim [1] anytime
> soon.  I had a quick look at the sources and it shouldn't be too hard,
> but it's quite a lot to do (to get all eclipse features).
>
> To me it seems that most java programmers use eclipse (or netbeans)
> anyway or switched to eclipse/NB, and there's noone feels preasured to
> enhance emacs in that direction.  And you can count me as one of those,
> sadly.  But I'm pretty sure that if someone would create an emacs
> interface to let's say only the autocompletion feature of eclipse using
> eclim, things would get running on their own.

There has been very much done to CEDET now. Would it not be a good
idea to use CEDET for an interface to eclim? Why not mention the
possibility on the cedet dev list?