It's been "almost" a year since our last article for the Eclipse newsletter, and a lot has happened in the jdt.ls project since. In this article, we'll cover some of the highlights of the past releases and the impact the project had on the Java ecosystem.
Over the past year, jdt.ls received a fair share of bug fixes and some notable improvements, including, among other things:
- smaller distribution size,
- faster start times,
- improved diagnostics performance,
- new Java 9 and 10 support,
- improvements to the "organize imports" refactoring (with favorite imports, imports order, execute on save),