Is it somehow possible to create VS Code extension using Xtext Fat Jar language server?

Question

I'm trying to create VS Code extension out of the FatJar language server created by Xtext. I saw the example project also (https://github.com/itemis/xtext-languageserver-example) but there is just an example using reference to parent xtext project located in the same repository. Is it possible to take language server directly from local jar (e.g. located in directory /server directly in vscode extension project) ?

Answer 1

Create VS Code extension using Fat Jar Xtext language server is pretty simple. There is just need to run java -jar ls.jar in the code, in order to start the language server. There is a problem with VS Code 1.33.0, where only the sh terminal is available, and a lot of commands are missing (even java -jar command in code is not executed correctly)