When thanks to its developers I added support for jdtls in
Eglot, I did it by
removing a lot of boilerplate in the package devised to accommodate the complex
setup needed for Eclipse JDT to start the language server. This made the
java-mode entry in eglot-server-programs simpler and it also moved the
responsibility of providing the correct defaults to the jdtls script itself.
However, recent versions of jdtls seem to still require extra configuration,
in particular with regards to the -data argument that before my change was
tweaked within Eglot.1 Understandably, Eglot’s maintainer cannot spend all
his time hunting down random quirks for every LSP server out there.2
Therefore, it’s up to the users to update their configuration at least until
jdtls takes care of this problem once and for all.3
The small hack I added to my init.el is the following:
(with-eval-after-load 'eglot
(let ((cache (expand-file-name (md5 (project-root (project-current t)))
(locate-user-emacs-file "jdtls-cache"))))
(add-to-list 'eglot-server-programs `(java-mode "jdtls" "-data" ,cache))))
The above snippet works fine with the latest jdtls (as of 2022-08-11 14:25)
and OpenJDK 18.0.2-ea. I updated the relevant Eglot discussion4 as well, so
refer to it if you need more details.