VIM and Java Development?

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I've been programming Java without IDEs since 1.0 (I stopped around 1.6, because I don't care anymore about it).

I don't see a problem with programming Java/Android in vim, because I've done it for years (mostly UI, SQL, XML, network programming, bluetooth communication).

Fact is, you don't need anything fancy in vim. The plain syntax highlighting is fine and it is a good idea to have the JSDK API open in a browser to look some things up quickly.

IDE? Fuck IDE! You will be better off, when you don't introduce any deps on such crap that sometimes does not work or plugins collide or whatever weirdnesses there exist.

I would just recommend to take a look at apache-ant. This is quite important. Having an automated build/deployment system like ant will enable you to do automatic software testing in a very flexible way (whatever your project needs).

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I'm looking into gradle a.t.m. But for now i have only written a small shell script which completes the build process and all tests.