Eclim

As I work in an interdisciplinary project in which we study the structure of dictionaries, some components must be coded in Java. The problem is... I don't particularly appreciate the IDE's such as Eclipse et NetBeans. They all have the same defect: When editing source files, we don't have access to all powerful functionalities provided by Vim. There exists a NetBeans plugin for Vim, but this one offers only a restricted subset of all functionalities.

Yesterday, I discovered a project called Eclim whose goal is to integrate Vim and Eclipse together. What is of particular interest is that there are three different possible scenarios:

• Vim (or rather GVim) is used as editor, but all the GUI of Eclipse is preserved.
• Vim is the text editor and there is no Eclipse GUI provided, but many additional commands are defined to create projects, to compile, to generate the documentation, etc.
• An in-between solution.

Personally, I prefer Option 2. On the other hand, the different scenarios proposed by Eclim should satisfy many developers who appreciate both the project management of Eclipse and the edition under Vim.