Using a newly minted protocol for language and IDE interoperability, Red Hat is expanding Java developers' ability to use Microsoft's Visual Studio Code editor.
This functionality was enabled by last week's release of Red Hat's Java language support extension to the Visual Studio Code marketplace. The extension is based on Red Hat's Java language server, an implementation of the Language Server Protocol recently forged by Red Hat, Microsoft, and CodEnvy. Based on JSON-RPC 2.0, the protocol defines calls and data structures to implement common language functionality on IDEs and editors.
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