How to use emacs as my JAVA IDE ?

Question

I would like to use emacs instead of Netbeans which gets too bloated on my computer. I already got JDEE, I did not digg it, but it looks like it lakes :

• Classes testing : run a class which has a main method, but which is not the main class of the project
• Maven integration : this is a minor wish as Netbeans doesn't support maven that well too.

Answer 1

for Maven look to ede-proj-maven2 (inherited from ede-generic) in current CEDET from CVS. It simple, but do some job. I plan to look to it in near future, because I use maven very often with clojure

Answer 2

I recommend you to use malabar-mode instead of JDEE - malabar is the only modern mode for Java development currently available for Emacs. It offers:

• Tight integration with Maven

• A Groovy console for rapid prototyping and exploratory programming

• JUnit integration, both for running tests standalone and through Maven

• Import help; import one class or all needed classes in the buffer (with prompting if the class name is ambiguous)

• Extend class / implement interface / override method helpers

• Simplistic refactorings