Next Gen JDEE

I'd like to bring up the topic of a major refactoring.  I don't think I'm in the minority in the mode of thinking that JDEE needs a major refactoring given:

- Girth of the project: it's a lot to maintain and various plugins might not be used any more
- Inertia: without a lot of activity there's less interest
- Popularity of Java: Java is much less popular, and thus, used.  That said, I think for us who use it less we still need it much like a C programmer might still at times need to view or modify bits of assembly.

Again, my earlier plans were to create a brand new project and port over pieces from JDEE.  Starting new I think is necessary to start the ball rolling where as a major refactoring of the existing code base would be an up hill battle against the mentioned inertia of a large project.

To reiterate from a previous thread, some top level ideas:

- Replace beanshell with clojure
- Replace semantic with some Java based parser (maybe compiler like ASM)--however all fly compilation and syntax correction etc happens in Java.  This includes more advanced high lighting.
- Entire project becomes an Emacs plugin
- Move to a plugin approach so each add on is a separately maintained Emacs plugin.  If someone wants to resurrect jde-debug from JDEE into the new version, then that person creates a new Emacs plugin that fits in some next gen JDEE plugin architecture.  This gets rid of some bloat ini the core next gen JDEE.

Question in order of importance:
- Who has the time and initiative to help out (I can't do it all myself with current time constraints)
- Should the project have a new name or carry the same name?  My feeling was start a brand new project for the purpose of name space and maybe create more "buzz" as a "new" Emacs java development library.

Given all of this, I'd like to hear others opinions how to proceed with JDEE--especially from the previous contributors of JDEE, which I've seen more of lately.

Regards,
Paul
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