Re: [jdee-users] Implementing Eclipse's "organize-imports" in Emacs Lisp

[Yee Keat Phuah]

Hi,

On Jan 24, 2008 4:07 PM, Paul Michael Reilly <address@hidden> wrote:
> Lennart Borgman (gmail) wrote:
> > Paul Michael Reilly wrote:
[snipped]
> >> 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)

I have the same idea about utilizing some of the eclipse libraries, I
am already using one of them, the ecj eclipse java compiler. In JDEE,
half of the IDE functions are done in java, and another half of them
in emacs lisp, I had the idea of just having emacs as a dumb frontend
to a backend process which relies on most of the eclipse libraries
(since this is where the momentum is). The only "IPC" mechanism that I
am aware of currently is using beanshell.

Having said that, my experience with both emacs and lisp is very
limited, not to mention my time. Just wondering whether anyone else
have explored this possibility, it will surely ease in maintaining
jdee in the future if we head down this direction.

Cheers,
Phuah Yee Keat