On-the-fly Java syntax checking in vim

Question

First and foremost please don't scream "Use an IDE" at me. I have given eclipse a chance and it is... okay but I'm much faster in vim than eclipse.

Basically the one thing that I wish vim could do that eclipse does is syntax checking on the fly. In eclipse if you have a syntax error the line is given an error marker and the file-name at the top shows a little red thing to let you know there are errors. I have been trying to get this in vim. I've looked at syntastic (which doesn't have checkers for Java) but I can't seem to make it work. So the question remains...

Is there any way to check syntax every time I save a file with vim? Hopefully have it show up in the status line naming how many errors and what line the first error is on...

Answer 1

I realise this already has an accepted solution but vim purists might prefer to use Syntastic

It comes pre-configured for many of the common languages like PHP, Java etc. Just thought I'd leave this here in case other people have the same question but don't want to run a headless eclipse server to achieve it.