Why don't Emacs and Java get along?

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I realize that may be a bit baiting, but I think it's generally true. Java dev in Emacs just isn't ideal. JDEE is stagnant and eclim works but isn't exactly top-shelf.

So my question is, why don't they mesh? Is there a technical reason that Java dev just can't be as smooth in emacs as IDEA/Eclipse/Netbeans?

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Eclipse is an IDE and has a couple full Java compilers inside. Emacs is a text editor and mostly uses regexes for highlighting text, and unix tools for generating tags to navigate the code.

There isn't enough people using Emacs for Java - it will probably never achieve the level of quality of well funded projects.

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