nullprogram.com/blog/2010/10/15/
There's an extension to Emacs
called JDEE which tries to
turn Emacs into a heavyweight IDE for Java. I've never had any success
with it, and I don't know anyone else who has either. It's difficult
to set up, the dependencies are even worse, poorly documented, and
then it doesn't seem to work very well anyway. I think it's too
divorced from Emacs'
core
composable functionality to be of much use. I may as well be using
a big IDE.
So, instead, as I've
posted about
over time, I've started with the basic
Emacs Java functionality and tweaked my way up from there. I've
extended it enough that I decided to package it up on it's own, and
hopefully others will find it useful too. I call
it java-mode-plus!
git clone git://github.com/skeeto/emacs-java.git
Specifically: java-mode-plus.el
It provides a hook into java-mode that creates a bunch of
new bindings. It also creates some new globally-available functions
like open-java-project. It's all heavily Ant-based since
that's what I like to use. It wouldn't be very hard to modify it to
use Maven, if that's what your thing.
My very thorough documentation is in a large header comment in the
source file itself. I cover my whole workflow from top to
bottom. If you're interested in making Emacs more Java-friendly take a
look at it. It's not a lot of code, but each line has been
thoughtfully added after hours and hours of Java development.