Re: State of JDEE

I agree, emacs is the best tool, but JDEE is a must for Java work.  JDEE
does seem to be falling behind, like generics in 1.5.  I think Paul has done
some amazing work, but everyone gets busy doing other things there are those
out here that would like to help.

On 8/11/07, Yee Keat Phuah <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I am relatively new (2 months) to both emacs and jdee (was a user of
> VI for 5 years+), I would like to say thanks to all the work that have
> been put into JDEE, the more I use it, the more i appreciate the work
> that are done on JDEE.
>
> After fiddling with JDEE, I came across this wonder plugin called
> jde-usages (I assume 99% of the users here use this?), the caller-tree
> function is really fast and beats the crap out of the original xrefdb
> version in jdee. And from the mailing list, I have just realized that
> the cvs version of jde-usages can be used to speed up code completion
> as well! I have done some minimal testing to if and it really does
> speed things up a lot.
>
> I have been hearing rumours that jdee is dead, the only thing that
> made me believe against it is the amount of activity found in the
> mailing list. But from what I can see from the mailing list, the last
> check in is 2 years ago! I have seen more and more great work done
> (especially by Suraj) and have to be put on emacswiki (hence made it
> not really apparent to new users), because it can't get integrated
> into the jdee tree.
>
> I have read that there are efforts to move jdee to sourceforge last
> year, but the discussion wasn't conclusive. I hope that if the
> maintainer (Paul) of jdee have not got enough time to spend on
> maintaining jdee anymore, at least give cvs/svn access to Suraj and a
> couple of other active participants here. The last thing I want to see
> is a fork of jdee.
>
> Sorry if any of these queries have already been answered or have been
> debated to death, I am the only one using jdee in my company, against
> all eclipse zealots and hopefully I do not have to give up on it just
> because jdee could not catch up anymore.
>
> Cheers,
> Phuah Yee Keat
>



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Mike Ash