Using jedit as an IDE

Question

What are the steps necessary to configure jEdit to be an IDE? I basically want to compile and debug Java programs. There are so many Java plug-ins. I'm not sure which ones are best.

Answer 1

You'll need the ProjectViewer and Sidekick plug-ins at a minimum. You'll probably also want one of the various support plug-ins like:

• AntFarm for dealing with Apache Ant.
• Any of the beautifier plug-ins (which one depends on your tastes and which languages you want to support).
• BufferTabs if you want to see all your opened files listed at once.
• Console for running apps, builds, etc.
• CTagsSidekick (make sure you get Exuberant Tags too!) to make the sidekicks more useful.
• JavaSidekick for obvious reasons.
• Maven if that's your cup of poison.
• XML because you can't do Java programming without a steaming brown heap of XML. :)

You'll need to explore other possible plug-ins later, of course, but this should get you started.

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Edited to add:

As requested, debugging options. I don't use debuggers often, so I can't vouch for any of these.

• The JSwat plug-in integrates, surprisingly, JSwat into jEdit.
• JavaDebugger (creative naming that!) integrates another debugger.