The clojure maven plugin allows you to set up a swank session that you can interact with using emacs. This is the type of web development that you mention and w

The clojure maven plugin allows you to set up a swank session that you can interact with using emacs. This is the type of web development that you mention and was a revelation for me when I tried it 2 weeks ago -- especially combined with Firefox autorefresh. Theres nothing to stop somebody from using swank for development and then switching to a web.xml and war file for deployment. Also it seems that in the clojure community, maven has a competitor: http://github.com/technomancy/leiningen http://github.com/technomancy/leiningen