Eclipse LemMinX & Maven extension: a Language Server for pom files

[Mickael Istria <mi...@redhat.com>]

Hi all,

I'd like to introduce to the Maven community the Eclipse LemMinX Language
Server for XML files (
https://github.com/eclipse/lemminx/blob/master/README.md ) and, more
importantly here, its extension for Maven pom files:
https://github.com/eclipse/lemminx-maven/blob/master/README.md .
While the XML language server already provides some XML and schema
validation and code assistance (completion, hover documentation, tree-based
outline...) for the pom files thanks to the Maven XSD schema; the Maven
extension adds some Maven specific smartness to it, like proper
understanding of GAVs, repositories (and indexes), completion of plugin
parameters and whatnot, a more complete list of features is available at
https://github.com/eclipse/lemminx-maven/blob/master/README.md#features

This LSP-based offer is already providing a lot of value to users thanks to
its rich features and its fresh completion workflow that try to minimize
the amount of boilerplate users have to type to get assistance.
It's easy to embed in any tool that supports the Language Server Protocol.
As mentioned on
https://github.com/eclipse/lemminx-maven/blob/master/README.md#integrations
, it's currently used by Eclipse m2e (snapshots) and vscode-xml plugin and
will quickly be used by other IDEs like Eclipse Che or Eclipse Theia and so
on. The concrete goal is to become the de-facto standard technology for
anyone who needs to provide some edition assistance for pom files.
Of course, it's a young project, and some use-cases may not be very well
supported yet. But there are plans to improve all that; and those plans can
involve you ;) Indeed, it's a pure OSS project, under the Eclipse
Foundation governance rule (business-and-community-friendly EPLv2,
meritocracy, vendor neutrality, clear IP...) which you can contribute to by
using the usual GitHub workflows for issues and pull requests, making
contributions safe and easy.

So feel welcome to try, evaluate, report issues, debug, submit PRs, blog,
tweet, embed... LemMinX and its Maven extensions. The entry point is
https://github.com/eclipse/lemminx-maven

Cheers,
-- 
Mickael Istria
Eclipse IDE <https://www.eclipse.org/downloads/eclipse-packages/>
developer, for Red Hat Developers <https://developers.redhat.com/>

Re: Eclipse LemMinX & Maven extension: a Language Server for pom files

[Mickael Istria <mi...@redhat.com>]

On Mon, May 4, 2020 at 2:40 PM Nick Stolwijk <ni...@gmail.com>
wrote:

> Hi Mickael,
>

Hi,

I was wondering if you send this intentionally to the dev mailinglist? I
> think this is better suitable for the user mailinglist, also you have a
> much broader audience there.
>

To be honest, we're not much looking for end-users at the moment. End-users
will be using LemMinX or LemMinX-Maven without knowing it, as it will be
part of their IDE. They won't have to "choose" it. Hence it's not
necessarily to communicate towards getting end-users here.
LemMinX-Maven code is extensively using Maven as an API, it requires some
expertise that's similar to developing Maven plugins or part of Maven
itself. This mailing-list is supposed to capture most of such people who
are technically capable of contributing. There is a strong overlap between
the followers of this mailing-list and the potential contributors to
LemMinX-Maven, that's why we mention it here.

Re: Eclipse LemMinX & Maven extension: a Language Server for pom files

[Nick Stolwijk <ni...@gmail.com>]

Hi Mickael,

This looks like a cool project!

I was wondering if you send this intentionally to the dev mailinglist? I
think this is better suitable for the user mailinglist, also you have a
much broader audience there.

Hth,

Nick Stolwijk

~~~ Try to leave this world a little better than you found it and, when
your turn comes to die, you can die happy in feeling that at any rate you
have not wasted your time but have done your best ~~~

Lord Baden-Powell


On Mon, May 4, 2020 at 2:16 PM Mickael Istria <mi...@redhat.com> wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I'd like to introduce to the Maven community the Eclipse LemMinX Language
> Server for XML files (
> https://github.com/eclipse/lemminx/blob/master/README.md ) and, more
> importantly here, its extension for Maven pom files:
> https://github.com/eclipse/lemminx-maven/blob/master/README.md .
> While the XML language server already provides some XML and schema
> validation and code assistance (completion, hover documentation, tree-based
> outline...) for the pom files thanks to the Maven XSD schema; the Maven
> extension adds some Maven specific smartness to it, like proper
> understanding of GAVs, repositories (and indexes), completion of plugin
> parameters and whatnot, a more complete list of features is available at
> https://github.com/eclipse/lemminx-maven/blob/master/README.md#features
>
> This LSP-based offer is already providing a lot of value to users thanks to
> its rich features and its fresh completion workflow that try to minimize
> the amount of boilerplate users have to type to get assistance.
> It's easy to embed in any tool that supports the Language Server Protocol.
> As mentioned on
> https://github.com/eclipse/lemminx-maven/blob/master/README.md#integrations
> , it's currently used by Eclipse m2e (snapshots) and vscode-xml plugin and
> will quickly be used by other IDEs like Eclipse Che or Eclipse Theia and so
> on. The concrete goal is to become the de-facto standard technology for
> anyone who needs to provide some edition assistance for pom files.
> Of course, it's a young project, and some use-cases may not be very well
> supported yet. But there are plans to improve all that; and those plans can
> involve you ;) Indeed, it's a pure OSS project, under the Eclipse
> Foundation governance rule (business-and-community-friendly EPLv2,
> meritocracy, vendor neutrality, clear IP...) which you can contribute to by
> using the usual GitHub workflows for issues and pull requests, making
> contributions safe and easy.
>
> So feel welcome to try, evaluate, report issues, debug, submit PRs, blog,
> tweet, embed... LemMinX and its Maven extensions. The entry point is
> https://github.com/eclipse/lemminx-maven
>
> Cheers,
> --
> Mickael Istria
> Eclipse IDE <https://www.eclipse.org/downloads/eclipse-packages/>
> developer, for Red Hat Developers <https://developers.redhat.com/>
>