Thank you all for the responses.
Basically emacs + slime seem to be the standard way to write abcl programs.

I have used emacs some years ago but I think I will have to relearn it to be able to be productive again.

1) You said "acbl should be a NB project natively" what do you mean by that?" 
2) Does anyone on the list have experience with lispbox? I read it defaults to clozure.

From: Blake McBride <blake@mcbride.name>
To: abcl-dev <armedbear-devel@common-lisp.net>
Sent: Thursday, September 13, 2012 2:43 PM
Subject: Re: [armedbear-devel] NEWBIE

I'd like to add that the "slime" package is normally used with emacs.  It allows emacs to connect to and and interact with a running ABCL instance.

On Thu, Sep 13, 2012 at 4:29 AM, Alessio Stalla <alessiostalla@gmail.com> wrote:
On Thu, Sep 13, 2012 at 11:15 AM, Mark Evenson <evenson@panix.com> wrote:
> On 9/13/12 10:59 AM, emeka okafor wrote:
>>
>> Hello Guys,

Hello, and welcome to the mailing list!

>> I would like to use abcl on some project and I have a couple of
>> questions for you guys:
>>
>> - What IDE do you guys use?
>
>
> Emacs.

I typically use Emacs too, because I'm coding mostly in Lisp, but in
the past I happily used Eclipse and NetBeans (abcl should be a NB
project natively), and that probably makes more sense if most of your
code is Java.

>> - What build system do you use?
>
>
> ASDF.  Actually, it depends on what software I am building.

ASDF for the Lisp stuff; Ant or the native IDE builders for the Java
stuff. ABCL itself is built with Ant. Joint compilation of Java and
Lisp is presently a task that has to be scripted manually.

>> - Can I integrate abcl in maven?
>
>
> We have pom.xml descriptions of abcl as a binary artifact in the source
> repository.  The binary artifacts for abcl-1.0.1 have not been pushed to
> Sonatype (Alessio?)

Actually, abcl 1.0.1 is on Maven Central
(http://search.maven.org/#artifactdetails|org.armedbear.lisp|abcl|1.0.1|jar),
as well as abcl-contrib. You can have it as a dependency in a Maven
project; however, there's no Maven plugin to compile your Lisp code,
so I guess you either have to treat it as resources (and compile it at
runtime), or have Maven launch an external script/Ant task to do that
for you. Personally I don't use Maven for my abcl-based OSS projects,
so I don't have much advice to offer.

Cheers,
Alessio

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