Apache Ivy Support / Multi Project EAR deployment

[isaacgale]

Hi All,

I currently use the Eclipse IDE (with IvyDE plugin) to maintain a large codebase (50+ projects). Which use Apache Ivy dependencies and Ant to build. The product is deployed as an EAR in a Wildfly Application Server.

When doing development I normally only have a subset of the project in my workspace and resolve the rest (jars) via the aforementioned Ivy.

I know currently jdtls only supports maven and gradle. If I were to attempt adding Ivy support do you think it would be possible to replace Eclipse with jdtls NeoVim? Or am I crazy 🤣

[fbricon]

We have no plans to provide built-in Ant/Ivy support in jdt.ls, however you can create a jdt.ls extension that does that.

• create an eclipse plugin that depends on jdt.ls. You can look at jbang-eclipse for instance. Your plugin must have no dependencies to anything Eclipse UI related, just core Ant stuff.
• provide a custom project importer , that will detect ant/ivy files, that will then import / configure the project as an eclipse project.
• declare it in your plugin.xml. Lowest order value has the highest priority
• To be able to react to ant/ivy configuration changes, you need to provide a custom build support, similar to the Maven one for instance.
• declare it in your plugin.xml
• When making a vscode extension, you can then point to your plugin jars, but I don't know the equivalent for Neovim. @mfussenegger might know.

[isaacgale]

Thanks for the information Fred I'll take a look when I get time.