VS Code plugin for OpenJDK development

[Geertjan Wielenga]

https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=ASF.apache-netbeans-java

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On Thu, 12 May 2022 at 13:11, Magnus Ihse Bursie <
magnus.ihse.bursie at oracle.com> wrote:

> On 2022-05-12 13:12, Maurizio Cimadamore wrote:
> > Hi Magnus,
> > this is great news. While I've been working on IntelliJ support for
> > quite a bit, I was too thinking about VSCode, especially for the
> > ability to work with Java and CPP simultaneously. There's already some
> > support to work on VM code with VsCode. The Java support is missing
> > AFAIK, as well as ability to run and debug jtreg tests, which we have
> > with IntelliJ. But I welcome any initiative to make OpenJDK more
> > accessible to more IDEs!
> For pure Java development I still prefer IntelliJ. But due to my role in
> OpenJDK, I mostly change makefiles and shell scripts, and just hacks a
> bit in a Java file or native file here and there,  and then VS Code just
> kicks *ss with the competition. :-) So simple edits to a few Java files
> works well, but the well-integrated code understanding (which underpins
> the set of refactoring options for instance) which is present in
> IntelliJ just isn't there, yet. So I'm not sure how much effort we
> should put into supporting VS Code for serious Java development, since I
> doubt anyone will use it at the moment.
>
> For native code, or when mixing Java and native code, that's another
> question. I do think there are Hotspot engineers using VS code as their
> primary editor. The compile_command.json support was added to benefit
> Hotspot development in VS Code, if I'm not misremembering.
>
> /Magnus
> >
> > Maurizio
> >
> > On 12/05/2022 11:50, Magnus Ihse Bursie wrote:
> >> Hi all,
> >>
> >> I've been using Visual Studio Code for most of my OpenJDK development
> >> needs for quite some time now, and grown very fond of it. A year ago
> >> or so, I wrote a plugin to support me in my daily tasks. It is
> >> available here:
> >>
> >>
> https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=magicus.openjdk-devel
> >>
> >>
> >> After a year of testing, I think it has proven its worth (to me, at
> >> least), and I feel ready to recommend it to my fellow developers. The
> >> plugin currently gives you a separate view with Github integration,
> >> showing your notifications for OpenJDK projects, your personal PRs,
> >> and open PRs for a set of chosen tags (i.e. areas you want to watch).
> >>
> >> My initial idea was to add support for JBS integration as well, but
> >> that part is stalled until our Jira instance gets proper support for
> >> access tokens. :-(
> >>
> >> If you have suggestions or improvements, feel free to open an issue
> >> or PR here:
> >> https://github.com/magicus/vscode-openjdk-devel
> >>
> >> /Magnus
>
>