Java IDE Pack

In pursuit of the best Java tooling in VS Code.

As of Feb 2018 VS Code has become more than editor. For Java it has debug, JUnit support. The developmnet is lead by (developers of) companies: Red Hat, Microsoft, Pivotal. And there are many diverse extentions available for other languages and general in nature.

This extention pack is to help to bootstrap VS Code for Java development. Comment via issues on GitHub, but note that feature contribution is done by particular extention listed below and you should use respective resource to learn and give (issues, changes). All GitHub links are given below.

The pack is to give compatible set, of extensions that complement each other. Requirements are those that satisfy all extensions.

Hint: this IDE pack also allows comfortably to disable Java plugins for workspace where you are to use other language stack.

Requirements

• VS Code 1.26+
• JDK 8. java, javac on path
• Maven, mvn on path

How to update VS Code

Install

Open VS Code Extension view (press Ctrl + Shift + X), type java-ide-pack.

Or launch VS Code Quick Open (Ctrl + P), paste the following command, and press enter.

ext install java-ide-pack

Included

List as displayName, publisher.name (aka Unique Identifier), GitHub URL [, "description", notes]:

• Java Language Support redhat.java
  https://github.com/redhat-developer/vscode-java
• Maven Project Explorer vscjava.vscode-maven
  https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode-maven
• Debugger for Java vscjava.vscode-java-debug
  https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode-java-debug
• Java Test Runner vscjava.vscode-java-test
  https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode-java-test
• Spring Initializr Java Support vscjava.vscode-spring-initializr
  https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode-spring-initializr
• "Spring Boot Dashboard" vscjava.vscode-spring-boot-dashboard https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode-spring-boot-dashboard
• Spring Boot Tools Pivotal.vscode-spring-boot
  https://github.com/spring-projects/sts4/tree/master/vscode-extensions
• Java Properties ithildir.java-properties
  https://github.com/ithildir/vscode-java-properties "A port of the TextMate Java Properties (.properties) syntax highlighting for Visual Studio Code."
• Java Decompiler dgileadi.java-decompiler
  https://github.com/dgileadi/vscode-java-decompiler
• vscode-icons robertohuertasm.vscode-icons
  https://github.com/vscode-icons/vscode-icons
• Tomcat for Java adashen.vscode-tomcat
  https://github.com/adashen/vscode-tomcat
• "Java IDE" extention
  https://github.com/jiangdequan/vscode-java-saber

See extensionPack section in package.json.

Since v1.126 there is no need for hard dependency of extensionDependencies, see Extension Pack management.

Not included

• SonarLint SonarSource.sonarlint-vscode
  SonarLint does not yet have support for Java #13
• jsh joshuansu.jshell
  https://github.com/joshuansu0897/Extension-Jshell-Code Java 9+ Shell (JShell) support
• Java Language Support georgewfraser.vscode-javac
  https://github.com/georgewfraser/vscode-javac "Java support using the Java Compiler API" is alternative to using language server
• Java Debug DSnake.java-debug
  https://github.com/go-bin/vscode-java-debug (Last commit Jan 2017)
• Java Snippets tushortz.java-snippets
  https://github.com/tushortz/vscode-Java-Snippets Only one release, all completions are in one 10MB java_complete.json
• Java Imports Snippets tushortz.java-imports-snippets
  https://github.com/tushortz/vscode-Java-Imports Only one release. Entering import starts with typing _
• Java Linter faustinoaq.javac-linter
  https://github.com/faustinoaq/vscode-javac-linter "A simple Java linter for Visual Studio Code using the the language server protocol."
• Spring Boot Support ecmel.vscode-spring-boot
  https://github.com/ecmel/vscode-spring-boot
• Java Server Pages (JSP) pthorsson.vscode-jsp
  Let template engine support stay optional.
• Java Run https://github.com/NeverCL/vscode-java-run

Feedback

Please let know if you created or found new VS Code extention

• GitHub issues

Developing

• https://github.com/paulvi/vscode-java-ide-pack

Links and docs

• https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/extensions/overview
• https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/extensions/publish-extension