Re: Emacs and JDEE : opinions sought.

[Oleksandr Gavenko <gavenkoa@gmail.com>]

On 2010-08-13 2:45, Richard Riley wrote:
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> Jim Crossley<jcrossley@redhat.com>  writes:
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>> Richard Riley<rileyrg@gmail.com>  writes:
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>>> Could someone familiar wit Java advise me about the status of JDEE?
>>
>> It's kinda dead, though I think Paul Landes is trying to revive it.
>>
>> Pray for him. :)
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> Heh.
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>>> Is it usable?
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>> Kinda
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>>> How well integrated is it with Semantic for example for Java class
>>> method/member completion possibly using ac-source-semantic with
>>> auto-complete?
>>
>> Kinda. Sorta.
>>
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> I have it loaded but the strangest thing : I can not for the life of me
> get auto-complete-mode on for jde mode even with a call to
> (auto-complete-mode t) in the c-mode-common-hook which is called when
> loading a .java file. I can turn it on by calling that function from the
> minibuffer after the java file is opened however. And then completion on
> classes etc was fine.
>
>>> Basically, is it worth the effort of learning and using Emacs for
>>> Java?
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>> No, probably not.  Not now.  It doesn't support 1.5 things like generics
>> and static imports.
>
> Could you elaborate a little what you mean by "support"? I can still
> type these things. Do you mean in terms of completion and refactoring
> maybe?
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>>> Any hints or tips with regard to Java development in Emacs much
>>> appreciated as I really want to stay from eclipse if at all possible.
>>
>> Yeah, I hear you, brother.
>>
>> I use Emacs for Java development, limping along mostly with JTags and
>> locate (mdfind on osx) and occasinally (but rarely) jdibug.  JTags does
>> most everything I ever counted on JDEE to do, so it may be enough for
>> you.
>>
>>> I realise I could download it and try it but not being a seasoned Java
>>> programmes I feel I'm not really equipped to rate it.
>>
>> Unless you *really* love Emacs and *really* hate Eclipse, you should use
>> Eclipse for Java development.
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> I do really dislike Eclipse. I tried IntelliJ which is a lot snappier BUT
> its 230 dollars for a single user license if I want to use the Android
> toolkit which is a tad steep. Today I got emacs compiling via ant and
> uploading to an android emulator and debugging with jdb via DDMS so I
> would prefer to stick with emacs to be honest.
>
How about FREE of cost NetBeans?

Android development also allowed (but I not try):

http://wiki.netbeans.org/IntroAndroidDevNetBeans
http://gerry.ws/2009/01/1074/how-to-setup-netbeans-for-android-development.html

Really Emacs luck Java support.

But I use Emacs for small Java project.
And actively use GNU Make/ETAGS.

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Best regards!