Eclim 2.2.5

The primary goal of Eclim is to bring Eclipse functionality to the Vim editor. The initial goal was to provide Eclipse’s java functionality in vim, but support for various other languages (php, python, css, html, xml, etc.) have been added and several more are planned.

Eclim is less of an application and more of an integration of two great projects. The first, Vim, is arguably one of the best text editors in existence. The second, Eclipse, provides many great tools for development in various languages.

Each provides many features that can increase developer productivity, but both still leave something to be desired. Vim lacks native Java support and many of the advanced features available in Eclipse.

Eclipse, on the other hand, still requires the use of the mouse for many things, and when compared to Vim, provides a less than ideal interface for editing text.

That is where eclim comes into play. Instead of trying to write an IDE in Vim or a Vim editor in Eclipse, eclim provides an Eclipse plug-in that exposes Eclipse features through a server interface, and a set of Vim plug-ins that communicate with Eclipse over that interface.

This functionality can be leveraged in three primary ways, if you want.

Here are some key features of "Eclim":

· Ant execution from any file.
· Context sensitive code completion when editing build files.
· Automatic validation of build files (w/ visual marking of errors and warnings).
· Quick access to ant documentation.
· Context sensitive code completion.
· Source code validation.
· Automatic validation (w/ visual marking of errors and warnings).
· Context sensitive code completion.
· Automatic validation (w/ visual marking of errors and warnings).
· Automatic source code validation (w/ visual marking of errors and warnings).
· Context sensitive code completion.
· Code correction suggestions with option to apply a suggestion.
· Class constructor generation.
· Java Bean getter and setter generation.
· Generation of delegate methods.
· Java source and java doc searching capabilities.
· Generate stub methods from implemented interfaces or super classes.
· Generate stub methods for junit testing.
· Quickly clean and sort imports and easily import new classes.
· Automatic generation of logging initialization code, upon first usage of a logger.
· Javadoc generation for package, class, field, method, etc.
· Java regular expression testing.
· Support for Checkstyle.

Requirements:

· Java

What's New in This Release: [ read full changelog ]

· 1.7.13 and above will now support Eclipse 3.8 as well as 3.7.
· Fix :ProjectGrep and :ProjectTodo to search in all of the project's links as well.
· Other minor bug fixes.