intellij VS java-language-server

It feels like there's zero tooling for bazel, even the C++ solution for Bazel, which is what I use for C++ is kind of a hack as opposed to first-class support backed by Google, like the IntelliJ plugin. Am I missing something or is it just that just all the Java people at Google use IntelliJ so they don't invest into other options?

We use bazel at work, and I have had some success getting this working in the past. It might be broken for me now, but that's also fairly likely to be a me/our version(s) problem. I don't write Java, so I can't really help too much beyond this. I just set cmd in lspconfig to the lang_server_linux.sh file that's output from the build steps of the above link.

I have been using Eglot and this Java language server: https://github.com/georgewfraser/java-language-server Eglot can use company-mode and yasnippet for completions. The Java LSP server I'm using is easy to configure with an explicit Java classpath and location of the JDK, which makes it work well with nonstandard Java compilation environments.

Then you have to copy & modify the default settings. From just doing a simple DuckDuckGo search I found https://github.com/georgewfraser/java-language-server with instructions on how to configure the command.

I use the vscode autocomplete plugin in vim. it acts as a language server that ALE can understand. https://github.com/georgewfraser/java-language-server