I agree.
On Aug 4, 2015, at 6:50 AM, Phillip Lord <phillip.l...@newcastle.ac.uk> wrote: > > > (Again, apologies for lateness -- been offline) > >> Enter Maven. I use a web search engine (or built-in Eclipse feature, >> but it's not very good) to find this: >> http://search.maven.org/#artifactdetails|org.apache.commons|commons-lang3|3.4|jar >> >> Then, I add this to my project's (existing) pom.xml: >> >> <dependency> >> <groupId>org.apache.commons</groupId> >> <artifactId>commons-lang3</artifactId> >> <version>3.4</version> >> </dependency> >> >> As soon as I hit save, I can go back to CoolClass.java and hit c-SPC >> again. It will work. > > > I have to agree with what you are saying about maven. Assuming JDEE goes > the route that I have suggested with a Clojure based nrepl client/server > (as opposed to beanshell) approach, there would be several ways of > achieving this. > > We could supply explicit support for adding dependencies; trivially, the > nrepl server would need restarting afterwards. Even neater would be to > use a tool like pomegranate which *dynamically* extends the classpath. > This includes adding a new maven dependency (with all the downloads that > this entails, iff any). > > The move away from beanshell to something better supported should mean > that more of this software comes off-the-shelf. Making Emacs support the > user interface, but being prepared to lean on Java and the JVM for this > non-editing related functionality is, I think, the way forward. > > Phil > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > _______________________________________________ > jdee-devel mailing list > jdee-devel@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/jdee-devel ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ jdee-devel mailing list jdee-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/jdee-devel
