Eclipse, the free and versatile IDE
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Users commonly recommend using Eclipse for Java programming and Android development. They believe it is a versatile and powerful IDE that is user-friendly and helpful for any developer. Users also suggest trying out Eclipse to see if it works for you. They recommend becoming familiar with plugins in Eclipse and using it as a de-facto IDE for software development in Java and other top technologies. Additionally, they recommend considering other IDEs for languages other than Java. Users think Eclipse is simple and easy to use, but suggest trying other solutions that may be lighter. They mention that giving Eclipse more memory space can improve its loading time and highlight that it has more plugins than other IDEs. Comparison-wise, users think Eclipse is better than Netbeans and mention that it is slowly improving. Overall, users highly recommend Eclipse for developers and believe you will love it.
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December 30, 2023
Eclipse, the free and versatile IDE
We use Eclipse as the main development environment for building software. In my personal case, I use it to develop web applications with Magnolia CMS product. Eclipse has different plugins you can find on its marketplace that allows you to easily integrate web bases solutions. It also supports many different languages and file types.
- Localhost server
- Languages support
- Code revision
- Code suggestions
- Performance
- Optimization
- Some bugs you find from time to time
December 29, 2023
Easy To Use, Start Building with Eclipse !!!
1. Eclipse takes care of things like formatting, documentation, packaging, etc, which saves around 20 % of the time so that we can focus on developing actual business logic which helps us to manage time.
2. Using Eclipse is like a day-to-day task for me, as I work in Java it is very simple and convenient to use, it is one of the best IDE I have come across.
3. Simple UI given is very helpful to focus on the more relevant task.
2. Using Eclipse is like a day-to-day task for me, as I work in Java it is very simple and convenient to use, it is one of the best IDE I have come across.
3. Simple UI given is very helpful to focus on the more relevant task.
- Easy To Use
- Easy To Setup
- Excellent Debug Options
- Can Add Formatting and documentation
- Git Section to maintain the code repository and resolve conflicts
- Sometimes Maven projects are not able to connect to third-party libraries, this issue is very intermediate
- Adding some external plugins will make Eclipse very slow and consume a lot of memory
- Compatibility with other IDE e.g. Also observes if we import some other IDE project to Eclipse it gives some weird problems.
December 22, 2023
Eclipse - hasn't set yet!
Our platform unlocks the most power from it when users use the full IDE experience, which is powered by Eclipse. Many years ago we had our own UI but developers asked for basics that they expect any IDE to handle - file management, window management, consistent compile-edit lifecycle, etc. Eventually, we realized the best way to get this was simply by being an Eclipse-based product.
- Integration system
- Best-of-breed Java development
- Flexible interface customizable, yet opinionated
- MacOS support is good-then-bad-then-good
- Dark mode is almost there, but not perfect
- Lighten up as much as possible its memory usage
October 15, 2021
Easy to use but a versatile IDE
Eclipse has been used very extensively all across our development teams for building variety of software products. I consider it to be one of the most reliable & versatile IDE in the market as it has almost every features which a developer would look for. It works & integrates very well with repositories like Github & SVN. It's overall user friendly UI helps developers write the code without any hassle. We were looking for an IDE which can support programming in multiple languages, so eclipse has really helped us in this aspect.
- Support multiple plugins installation.
- Simple & easy to use UI.
- Support multiple programming languages.
- Good debugging features.
- Becomes slow at times when multiple plugins gets added
- Intellisense doesn't work sometimes.
- Takes a lot of memory when dealing with bigger projects
October 12, 2021
One of the best IDE for Java in the market
Eclipse IDE is used in the IT department for software development and solutions to problems that arise within the organization on a daily basis.
It is used for the creation of services until the creation of compiled files to be consumed by other processes, it is also used to create personalized libraries that will be consumed by other services or programs.
These softwares can be used throughout the organization for daily tasks that can be presented to users.
These softwares can be used throughout the organization for daily tasks that can be presented to users.
- Debugging
- Mark of errors
- Compilation
- Updating the libraries
- The way you find some configurations of the toolkit
October 11, 2021
Eclipse: Grand Old IDE
Eclipse is used in [the] software development department by developers that need to write code in Java programming language. As it's an integrated development environment (IDE), it speeds up the code writing and compilation processes by having features that assist with tasks that developers have to deal with daily, like code completion and unit testing.
- Unit testing
- Eclipse Marketplace
- Code completion
- UI should be modernized and could be more user friendly
- Using workspaces could be voluntary
October 11, 2021
If you want productivity choose another IDE
Eclipse is the recommended IDE by default for application development using the JAVA language. We develop Rest APIs and MVC web applications with it.
- Easy to set up
- bad interface
- high memory consumption
- bad usability
October 06, 2021
My review of Eclipse
It's one of the IDEs that many developers use daily. Most Java engineers use it to write and debug code. It's used across the entire engineering team.
- Lots of debugging features
- Auto-completion saved a lot of time for developers
- Extensibility is not as good as IntelliJ
- It uses more resources than some other IDEs. It becomes pretty slow when the project is big.
June 15, 2021
Eclipse: The IDE for Java development
Eclipse is used in different departments of my organization, mainly in all IT-related departments, where having a trustworthy IDE is a must. Its main purpose is to be a platform to work with Java projects. I use it myself professionally, but I've also used it when learning to program in Java.
- Great IDE for Java programming
- Lots of plugins and integrations, as it's open-source
- UI is simple so it's easy to find everything you need for coding
- The debugger is one of the best I've tried
- When working with bigger projects takes up a lot of RAM and sometimes it crashes
- Not so prepared for other languages than Java
May 07, 2021
Look no further than Eclipse for a Java IDE
Eclipse is an integrated development environment (IDE) used in computer programming. I used Eclipse mainly to develop Java applications. It was being used by most developers I know that write Java code. I would say it is the best IDE for Java but it can also be used for other coding languages and applications. I use it both personally and professionally.
- IntelliSense is awesome.
- Run and compile Java with ease.
- The theme and animations can affect performance.
- It does support a lot of languages, but not as good as Java.
October 01, 2020
Eclipse for Embedded Developers
We use Eclipse-based IDE like QNX Momentics, NXP KDS, and TI's Code composer. This includes R&D and Testing. It provides one single platform to write code, compile, flash it on target, debug, and unit testing.
- Debug.
- Compilation.
- Support for different build systems like CMAKE.
- Easy to get standard plugins from marketplace.
- RAM usage.
- Hang issue at times.
- Improve support for CMAKE. Currently, it cannot directly import CMakeList file as project.
August 11, 2020
Eclipse - a free, simple, fast, lean IDE made for learning
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In my college, all labs are using Eclipse to teach the students. Labs in computer science and IT departments and also in the building of first-year students too. This software is used for teaching the students, coding in Java SE, and web development in Java EE. I personally used this software to develop my projects. I first used this software when I was learning the java in my coaching institute Vedisoft, and then I became used to it because it is the simplest and fastest IDE I have ever seen.
- Simple layout, no complex options are provided.
- Boot up time is short compared to other IDE.
- GIT integration is a good feature.
- Good project management.
- Nice debugger and auto complete feature is good.
- There is no java-script debugger.
- No customization allowed in the theme of IDE.
- Switching perspective takes a bit much time.
- Integration of tomcat server is a bit of a headache.
February 11, 2020
Coffee and Eclipse
It's currently used by some teams who are working on open-source technologies. It's the best IDE for Java development.
- Stable.
- User friendly.
- Add themes.
- Better integration with Git.
January 10, 2020
My Take on Eclipse
It is used across the whole organization as a tool for any Java-related development. It speeds up and solves development mechanisms at my organization in order such as allowing users to easily perform Proof of Concepts around multiple technology stacks around Java and as well the faster development process helps as well.
- Stacks of integrated features.
- Easy predictors for development.
- Documentation.
- JavaDoc integration.
December 05, 2019
Eclipse is a solid IDE for many languages and provides all the features you will need.
Eclipse is the standard IDE used for Java development in the Technology department. Eclipse solves large projects well with complete code compilation and handles plug-in development. Eclipse is used for software development for trading and compliance applications that utilize MAVEN, AVRO, GIT which are essential to these applications. Eclipse enables different programming languages including Python, Java, and C++ which are vital to the firm. In addition, Eclipse is integrated with subversion which is the configuration management tool used firm-wide.
- Eclipse organizes imports well and does a good job presenting different programming languages.
- Eclipse auto formats source code allowing customization and increased readability.
- Eclipse reports errors automatically to users rather than logging it to the console.
- Eclipse has coding shortcuts and auto-correction features allowing faster software development.
- Eclipse setup is long, non-intuitive and not user-friendly for beginners.
- The documentation feature is so difficult that it is often not used.
- The Project explorer is hard to read and not a good organizer.
- Eclipse look and feel and not as appealing as IntelliJ.
October 24, 2019
Developing in Eclipse
Our development team currently uses Eclipse for our J2EE web application. We develop and debug using the tool to deliver quality software to our business users.
- Free IDE which was an easy sell to upper management to use.
- Very easy to set up development environment to get started.
- There is a community of users which can be helpful if needed.
- Debugging feature not as polished as other paid IDE tools.
- When moving from different Git branches, I've noticed Eclipse sometimes breaks my local setup at different levels. I have to waste time to diagnose the problem.
- I wish there was better debugging mechanism when debugging our web application.
August 19, 2019
Eclipse is the do-it-all code editor
We use Eclipse as the IDE and code editor for our Adobe ColdFusion-based web applications. We only have a small number of ColdFusion developers but we standardized on using it as our IDE almost 15 years ago. As a full-featured code IDE, it allows us to edit code files in various languages, has an integrated code debugger, and integrates with our Subversion source code control.
- Eclipse is very powerful and has a wide range of plugins that can be used to customize it and add additional functionality. For example, you can write code in a wide variety of languages, debug your code, commit it to your code repository, and manage your database schema and data all without ever leaving Eclipse.
- As open-source software, it's available for free.
- It has (or had) a very large user base so if you ever encountered issues, it's likely you're not the only one and you can find help from someone else who's experienced the same issue.
- It runs on top of Java so it's available on almost any platform.
- Compared to newer, more popular code editors today, Eclipse feels very large, bloated, and slow.
- I've had compatibility issues in the past where certain 3rd party plugins I've relied on weren't compatible with newer versions of Eclipse and prevented me from being able to update to the latest versions. Or sometimes two plugins would conflict with each other or cause issues when used together. Occasionally I get random errors that are difficult to troubleshoot or identify the root cause.
- Starting Eclipse always seems to take a really long time, it can consume a lot of memory, and sometimes runs slowly.
July 18, 2019
Eclipse - An extensible platform
Eclipse is currently being used primarily by the IT community for aiding the businesses across North Americas and the South Americas for the business sectors across the organization. It is used primarily to help build reports of medium complexity by utilizing Hana views for SAP systems based on SAP HANA fairly quickly without relying on traditional ABAP route.
- Eclipse is a great platform to help build Hana views of high to medium complexity without depending on traditional ABAP.
- Eclipse has proved to be a great tool for purposes of building a view on the fly when a critical business decision in Production systems needs complex analysis.
- Eclipse has proved helpful for our super user's community in corporate finance departments to build their own queries with less reliance and dependencies on IT.
- Eclipse, at times, seems to pull a lot of system resources when running in the background resulting in slower system response in general. The workaround has been to eliminate some other applications running in parallel to improve the system performance.
- Though there are multiple methods to expose the Hana views developed from Eclipse to the user community, some options are not very intuitive such as creating O Data services for creating Fiori apps, etc.
- In case of finding incorrect joins, the ability to run data previews at join levels come in very handy. The performance of the backend Hana views at times is time-consuming and the cause for the issue is not obvious at the onset. However, after careful analysis, once the cause (say an inefficient join condition ) is known, the rectification could be simplified.
April 23, 2019
Wanna start with Java coding??
Eclipse is a famous Java IDE. It easily combines language support. The best thing about Eclipse is the suggestions we get for every line. When we are aware of the proceeding we get all suggestions which can be included or used for correct usage. Java related coding and debugging is done in Eclipse. Beginners who are interested in coding can start with Eclipse but when we come for specifications it becomes a bit difficult. Pointing out errors is very easy in Eclipse. It also shows proper directory structure which allows the user to navigate easily from class to class.
- Pointing out errors.
- Auto fill code.
- Proper directory structure.
- Less menu structure.
- Restarts soon when closed and opened.
- UI can be changed with better colors and options.
April 05, 2019
Great IDE at no Price
We use it on a daily basis to access java programs and Oracle Service Bus proxy services. It is used across the organization by many people. We are a service and integration team, and we build services using Java/Weblogic JAX-RPC using Eclipse. It enables us to modernize legacy systems by exposing them as services.
- It's a free tool and we can use it for pretty much everything Java.
- We also use it to connect to version control systems, such as svm directly from the IDE.
- It has great short cuts enabling us to navigate between various classes and methods at a great speed.
- I think the shortcuts and handling of boiler plate code could be better.
- We miss connectivity to something like Salesforce CRM to do SOQL queries.
February 04, 2019
Excellent tool for debugging applications
Most of the developers use Eclipse for developing applications. It's used across different teams to design and collaborate. Eclipse supports a variety of plugins which makes it easier to code applications for both Android and IOS environments. It provides customized startup templates for developing web applications, web servers and small to large scale websites.
- Community support is good. New plugins are released which makes it easier to code applications.
- Integration with 3rd party applications is seamless
- Debugging code is easy which helps you to write reusable, efficient and well-tested code.
- Eclipse has problems with version updates. It restarts while installing newer versions of plugins and software which makes it difficult to use.
- The intellisense functionality needs improvement.
- Configuration with other 3rd party applications is not easy and documentation is not easily accessible.
May 21, 2018
Best tool to develop java based applications
It has been used to create window and web application using java language. It is also used to create scrapping applications to download data from different markets.
- Easy to create different types of web applications.
- Managing the code global classes are very simple.
- Easy to enhance and fix bugs.
- Difficuilt to add server database connection on local machine.
- It takes time to build project solution.
- It should support auto port change feature.
May 04, 2018
Eclipse-Developer Tool
We have been widely using eclipse IDE for developing various Java and J2EE applications in our organizations. We also use it for developing other scripting languages like javascript, widgets and other programming languages. But we mostly use it for Java applications. Eclipse also has had the capability to configure mobile based plugins/extensions for Android and iOS and to develop applications for mobile use. Eclipse has eased a lot of development and fast-tracked the development effort which directly increases the productivity of code and speeds up the delivery process.
- Eclipse's latest version like neon, Zuno has inbuilt maven plugins where we can leverage the code integration and check in with various source control management tools like SVN, Github etc.
- As said earlier, Eclipse also has the capability of extending plugins that are required for Andriod and iOS mobile applications.
- The best I could say is it provided a lot of shortcuts for development like providing different Java API in front instead of the developer being typing.
- I think it needs improvement in GWT applications.
- More support for mobile simulation is required for iOS-based applications.
April 30, 2018
Best free IDE for Java developers
Eclipse is the corporate standard IDE for the FedEx IT department, majorly for the Java based system development. Some dedicated team also uses its C++ version and Python version. Most of FedEx in-house built IT solutions are implemented with the help of the Eclipse, which includes the traditional J2EE application, Java Client, SOAP and RESTful services, etc.
- Coding is kind of fun, straight forward
- Easy to use
- Fully configurable and very flexible
- Rich functions
- Many great plug-ins to follow the latest technical trends
- Sometimes due to default enabled validation mechanism (difficult for the beginner to fully understand how and where to customize all options) Eclipse performance will suffer
- Plug-in installation is tricky and does not always work well
- Crashes due to the plug-in issues without giving useful trouble shooting messages
February 26, 2018
Easy to install, open source essential developing tool
Eclipse is used in my organization by me and by all the web developers that work here, except for one that prefers brackets. I am not sure about other departments using the same software, but I assume they use it as well. We use is basically to edit the code in the websites we manage, which are a section of the school of medicine.
- Color coding, I love it.
- The eclipse forums where you can ask for help.
- The templates that come with it. Really helpful.
- The start time when first initiated.