With technologies like Quarkus and GraalVM emphasizing the importance of Java ecosystem in the cloud, good language support becomes important across various IDEs.
The JDT project has been around for a long time so it would be nice if all could benefit from the work that has gone into it, rather than having to reinvent the wheel.
Eclipse IDE provides a lot of powerful features and capabilities. With so much functionality at disposal, many users don't use the full potential of the IDE. To be productive, mastering your IDE is as important as mastering your source code.
This talk shows how to use language servers to enhance the existing Java tooling in Eclipse. We explain how language servers can be integrated into JDT so that they work together in a seamless way using the LSP4E project and what custom code needs to be written for that integration.
Eclipse Java Development Tool (JDT) is witnessing rapid changes now, thanks to the faster Java release cycles – Since Java 9, a new Java version arrives every six months! Java 10 and Java 11 (due Sep 2018) releases have many explicit and implicit Java features in them. For e.g., “var” support was an explicit feature. There are features like Nest, Constant Dynamic, etc. that is in Java 11 along with enhancements to var support. Some of these features contain more than what meets the eye; they serve as building blocks of new features on the horizon. This talk will discuss how Eclipse JDT has incorporated new language features from a user perspective and the challenges involved. This talk will give a sneak peek into some of the major upcoming language features in the works as well.
