Best practices for Moneydance extension development

Are there any best practice开发者_如何学JAVAs when developing Java-based extensions for Moneydance?

As the founder and main developer of Moneydance I can admit to using several different environments to write extension, from emacs+terminal+ant to Xcode, eclipse and (currently) IntelliJ's IDEA.

The only thing that I'd really recommend is to use ANT. That is mainly because it makes my life easier when you submit an extension for review and to be signed. The sample extension available from moneydance.com/developer also provides a sample ant build file. Other than ANT, just use your favorite java environment.