Eclipse LSP4J

Basics

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Parent Project:

Eclipse Technology

Background:

The Language Server Protocol currently defined by the VSCode team at [1] is an effort to unify communication between editors (tools) and advanced language tooling.

[1] - https://github.com/Microsoft/language-server-protocol

Scope:

This project aims at providing a reusable Java implementation of VSCode's language server protocol. It implements the types as well as the communication, including serialization to and deserialization from JSON.

Description:

LSP4J is a Java implementation of VSCode's language server protocol intended to be consumed by tools and language servers implemented in Java.

Why Here?:

The Eclipse Foundation is a trusted open source foundation and hosts a number of potential clients of this project, such as (Eclipse Platform, JDT, Xtext, JSDT, etc.)

Licenses:

Eclipse Distribution License 1.0 (BSD)

Eclipse Public License 1.0

Legal Issues:

No legal issues.

Project Scheduling:

We intend to provide a first incubation release shortly after project creation.

Future Work:

It is planned to keep up with the evolution of the language server protocol.

People

Project Leads:

Miro Spönemann