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

[Richard Riley]

Lennart Borgman <lennart.borgman@gmail.com> writes:

> 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?
>
>


I can second that. I use a autocomplete with cedet and it works nicely.


http://xtalk.msk.su/~ott/en/writings/emacs-devenv/EmacsCedet.html
http://richardriley.net/projects/emacs/dotprogramming