[wffurr]

A good fuzzy finder helps a lot with this. You can type something like `ccufFoo` to match `com.company.util.factories.FooWidgetFactory`. I use fzf.vim for this.

Thankfully my company has its own hosted LSP that supports Java (and every other language in our bazel monorepo) so I don’t have to mess around with Eclipse and JDTLS (what happened to eclim?). But at a prior company I just worked without an LSP and just did a lot of referencing Java docs in a browser and split screen files.

[fernandotakai]

another solution for fuzzy finding is telescope.nvim https://github.com/nvim-telescope/telescope.nvim

the thing i like the most about it is the amount of plugins you can add (including things like looking at nvim's paste ring).

[slowmovintarget]

I believe that the Neovim Kickstart project gives you Telescope as the fuzzy finder. (The YouTube video by TJ is linked in the README.)

https://github.com/nvim-lua/kickstart.nvim

[rat87]

> what happened to eclim

I was also curious. The project has been shut down/archived this August recommending java LSP instead but it seems like there hasn't been a lot of work or a release since 2021

https://github.com/ervandew/eclim

> (Aug. 03, 2024)

> Eclim has reached its end of life. The Language Server Protocol (LSP) and the various implementations are mature enough that eclim has become unnecessary.

> It has been a great run (nearly 20yrs!) and I'm grateful for everyone that helped out, from bug reports to patches, it's been awesome

[VHRanger]

I can recommend the yazi CLI tool for filesystem traversal:

https://yazi-rs.github.io

It has support for fzf and zoxide for these uses. As well as a panoply of other goodies (ripgrep, file previews, commands without exiting the file explorer, etc.)

If one is willing to learn helix instead of nvim, I know there's integrations out there between the two as well. I wouldn't be surprised if there were for nvim as well.

[fleekonpoint]

There’s a yazi nvim plugin too!

[metaltyphoon]

Been using yazi for the terminal but not as a plugin yet. Perhaps I should give it a try. I’ve been happy with oil.nvim too

[le-mark]

I started down that route and decided it was just a lot of work ie mental effort I didn’t want to do. My motivation was eclipse maven plug-in was buggy and sucked at the time. I found (like most) IntelliJ gave a much more pleasant experience. How long have you been doing it and how have you managed to stick with it?

[wffurr]

I wrote Java sans LSP for three years full time (2012-2015), and then occasionally since then.

Since 2015, I mostly worked on the web version of our cross platform C++ project but have contributed substantially to the Android and iOS libraries as well.

[fire_lake]

What’s the LSP tool that integrates with Bazel?

Is it open source?

[__float]

It looks like they work at Google, based on their GitHub (assuming the same username) -- so no, it's sadly not open source :(

A real shame, I think Bazel's lack of good IDE options definitely hampers its adoption.

[gorset]

I always found the existing bazel integrations annoying. My solution has been to generate .classpath based on a set of bazel queries. Not what's officially recommended, but it has worked great for the projects I've been involved in. Easy to understand, and keeps bazel completely separate and independent from the IDE experience which has some benefits.

[wffurr]

No, it’s not open source alas.