Install malabar-mode for java development


Install Malabar-mode for java development

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Table of Contents

  • 1 Why Malabar-mode?
  • 2 What is Malabar-mode?
  • 3 Install Malabar-mode
  • 4 Configure Malabar-mode

1 Why Malabar-mode?

There are Jdee for java development in emacs, so Why Malabar instead? Jdee is such a huge weapon, that it's so hard to hack into it. It is powerful but probably includes more useless features. What's more, Jdee maybe slow down your Emacs, but you can not fix it.

But why not use Eclipse? Well, Emacs just make me cooler.

2 What is Malabar-mode?

Malabar-mode is hosted on GitHub. It provided a much more elegant way to edit java source code compared with Jdee. Just as its Github's page title – "A better Java mode for Emacs".

3 Install Malabar-mode

This project stopped upgrade about two years age. So I met some troubles during the installation.
Build the package with the following command.
mvn package 

And I got following warning and errors.
[WARNING] Some problems were encountered while building the effective model for org.grumblesmurf:malabar:jar:1.4.0
[WARNING] 'build.plugins.plugin.version' for org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-compiler-plugin is missing. @ line 123, column 15
[WARNING] 

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  Failed tests:   objectHasNoSuper(org.grumblesmurf.malabar.ClasspathTest): 
    superOfIntegerIsNumber(org.grumblesmurf.malabar.ClasspathTest): 
    inputStreamImplementsCloseable(org.grumblesmurf.malabar.ClasspathTest): 
    outputStreamImplementsCloseableAndFlushable(org.grumblesmurf.malabar.ClasspathTest): 
    collectionImplementsIterableE(org.grumblesmurf.malabar.ClasspathTest): 
    scannerImplementsIteratorString(org.grumblesmurf.malabar.ClasspathTest): 
    classInfoOfEnumDoesntInfLoop(org.grumblesmurf.malabar.ClasspathTest): 

  Tests run: 52, Failures: 7, Errors: 0, Skipped: 0

  [ERROR] Failed to execute goal org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-surefire-plugin:2.10:test 
(default-test) on project malabar: There are test failures.

I add a version number into maven's configure file pom.xml to fix the warning message.

<version>2.5</version>

and to fix test case failed error, I just delete the test case from the package.

rm src/test/groovy/org/grumblesmurf/malabar/ClasspathTest.groovy

Then I can install the Malabar-mode into my emacs following its step-by-step tutorial.

4 Configure Malabar-mode

I configure Malabar-mode according to this guy's tutorial. And install jdibug as debug tool.

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