Re: Implementing Eclipse's "organize-imports" in Emacs Lisp

["Lennart Borgman (gmail)" <lennart.borgman@gmail.com>]

Paul Michael Reilly wrote:
> I probably spend half my time doing Java development in Emacs and the
> other half in Eclipse.  I once tried to get the Eclipse plugin that
> talks to Emacsclient to work better for me with only marginal success.
> It is an option to revive this effort.  But even if this were to work
> nicely, it's appeal is limited to Eclipse developers leaving NetBeans,
> IntelliJ, JBuilder, etc. Users out of the solution space.
> 
> One of the Eclipse features that I find indispensable is the Organize
> Imports feature which analyses the source file to determine if the
> import statements need to be pruned, augmented or modified (based on
> the .classpath file which is problematic since this file is an Eclipse
> artifact).  I would dearly love to have this capability in Emacs.
> 
> Have either of the other two Java developers who use Emacs done this
> perchance?  :-)  I'm guessing not.
> 
> Assuming it does not exist, I'd be inclined to create a Java
> application to run in the background which provides an IPC mechanism
> to talk to Emacs Lisp.  Then I would develop "features" in this proxy
> app for Emacs that are more natural to implement in Java.  I'm
> guessing that a "daemon" type app is better than a typical Unix tool
> approach (because of painful start-up latencies that won't likely be
> solved for a few years ubiquitously)
> 
> Anyone feel this is just a totally wrong way to go to solve the
> problem?
> 
> -pmr


Why not try to ask this on the JDEE developers list?