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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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.
February 22, 2018
Most Advanced and Open IDE to mostly all Developers
We use Eclipse as our main IDE for all our Consultancy services. Eclipse is used as well for our main commercially distributed products: Bonita BPM , Talend ESB and OpenKM. We develop JEE apps, Restful Web Services, SOAP Web Services among others.
- Easy to Install and configure.
- Most expandable with modules and plugins.
- Evolve fast as new technologies appears.
- The community around Eclipse is very helpful.
- Although the latest version has high DPI screen compatibility, I think it could be better.
- Needs faster startup time from cold boot.
- Needs to update the icon library, since it looks out dated.
February 01, 2018
Powerful Open-Source IDE
We were evaluating different types of software for a client and some on the short list of software we were evaluating were using eclipse as their development platform as well as their business-facing application. In short, they were using Eclipse for both dev and client. The reason why they used Eclipse is that they wanted to develop on Java and Eclipse is friendly to that programming language, however, the UI was very difficult to use on Eclipse.
- Eclipse is very Java-friendly so developing applications on Eclipse has many handy tools for that purpose
- Eclipse is open-source so if you don't like something, someone has a fix for it. Or you can change it!
- Eclipse is widely used so if you have experience with Eclipse, you're likely to run into it again.
- Some of the UI controls are difficult to use. For example, there have been instances where I could barely see the UI controls, and there was no way to enlarge them. Which was frustrating.
- Eclipse itself has a learning curve to it. If this is your first real IDE, you should take some time to learn all the controls to get the most out of Eclipse.
- In the past, graphic rendering can take a long time depending on how fast your computer is. My computer is quite capable but sometimes still Eclipse performance issues.
February 01, 2018
A total Eclipse of my art
As part of my role, I use Eclipse as content management for our web development along with the tech team. It allows us to work together on web projects and I find it a great system over other content management systems I have previously used. It is self-explanatory and speeds up my daily work on the website.
- Ease of use - simple to use and quick to manage
- Great user interface - can be personalised to your requirements
- I have no recommendations on changes as Eclipse meets all my required needs for how I currently use it
January 30, 2018
A review has no name
I use eclipse within my department to research the most efficient web development programs and henceforth create the best strategy going forward.
- Code Completion
- Refactoring
- Syntax Checking
- It has a steep learning curve
- A sophisticated IDE is not the best tool for beginning programmers within an organisation.
- It will not fix bad code, practices, or design
January 30, 2018
Eclipse - A free IDE aimed at Java developers
We use eclipse to develop our Java EE/JSF web server. JSF seamlessly integrates with eclipse with it's extensive selection of plugins allowing us to code in native JSF utilizing autocomplete. We use Jboss wildfly 8 as our application server which integrates very well with eclipse, I can start, stop, restart or start in debug mode all from eclipse' clear and concise GUI.
- Integrates well with third party applications
- Autocomplete is very useful (and with some additional configuration can work with third party libraries)
- Provides a set of starter templates for a wide range of projects e.g. website, webapp, web server
- It's customizable GUI is great as you constantly need to check contents of different files
- Eclipse can sometimes be slow, especially when working on large projects
January 25, 2018
OK - but has not improved in 10 years
For Java development of custom and vendor apps.
- OK developer experience
- Good integration with Spring tooling
- Easy to install, well-used by the industry
- Its intellisense needs to get better - has not improved in 10+ years. Much worse than Visual Studio
- Frequently the maven integration breaks and it requires a lot of manual tinkering to get the build to work
- Needs a better project file structure to allow for easier import of projects
December 14, 2017
Quick Review on Eclipse
Since Eclipse is free and versatile to use with any kind of development environments, most developers in my organization prefer to use it as their main Integrated Development Environment (IDE) for Java SE and EE projects.
- Main advantage is that it does not need any propitiatory license to use its full features. So using Eclipse is cost effective for any software development company.
- Eclipse is comprehensive to adapt most industrial technologies/frameworks without any hesitation.
- Eclipse has frequent upgrades. So the issues in the eclipse source are being rectified.
- Eclipse users may experience unexpected crashes due to various reasons.
- Compared to IntelliJ IDEA, Eclipse is lack of user friendliness.
- Eclipse may be slow in operation when it has many background processes.
November 29, 2017
Eclipse: The IDE for You?
Eclipse is the primary IDE for development of in-house projects. In order to quickly develop applications, including batch and web applications deployed to Tomcat, Eclipse is our go-to platform.
- Tomcat integration for local deployment and integration testing is easily accomplished with Eclipse.
- Integration with build standards like Ant and Maven are easily achieved with Eclipse.
- Find bugs, JUnit, and other third-party tools that make code validation necessary and invaluable in Eclipse.
- Menu structures are not as intuitive as one might think. Using the product for over a decade, I still have to search for elements that impact general development processes.
- While the plugin architecture is nice, some features should just come standard. Code validation and debugging plugins should be improved and be default.
- Tomcat integration should be defaulted. While it can be built out directly from eclipse.org, customizing could be by-passed and just default it as a standard installation and configuration.
November 14, 2017
IDE For enterprise projects and real developers
It was used by most Java developers in my previous company for software project development activities. In current company it’s individual's choice.
- Number of features
- Different language support
- Plugins marketplace
- Simple UI
- Little slow
October 26, 2017
Eclipse easy and good
We use it to develop Machine Learning software.
We also use it to develop Selenium Automation test scripts.
Eclipse provides the environment to develop, debug and launch our software.
It is user friendly and robust.
It loads well. We also use the advanced version IntelliJ Idea for developing the Deep learning applications.
We also use it to develop Selenium Automation test scripts.
Eclipse provides the environment to develop, debug and launch our software.
It is user friendly and robust.
It loads well. We also use the advanced version IntelliJ Idea for developing the Deep learning applications.
- Provide code trace.
- Provide save and restore of sessions.
- Provide keyword suggestions.
- Provide debugging help.
- Merge projects
- Distributed deployment (avoids memory requirements).
- Run time dynamics display.
October 17, 2017
An Excellent Free Java Development IDE - Eclipse
Our company uses Eclipse in the whole IT department for the development of in-house Java projects, including SOAP/RESTful web services, Salesforce integration, ESB components and standalone applications.
- Develop all kinds of Java-based projects, such as a standalone application, web application, and web services.
- It supports powerful debugging functionality, especially with the integration of application servers, such as Tomcat.
- It integrates with many tools, such as Maven and SVN, which makes the whole software development cycle much easier.
- It should support type definition everywhere, not only in Java code, but also in JavaScript, XML, XSD, Spring contexts.
- The code completion and renaming functionality should be more smarter.
- The refactoring functionality should be more flexible.
August 11, 2017
Eclipse Saved Us Lots, How Can It Help You?
Eclipse was originally adopted by our QA department due to our web projects - it was used in conjunction with the Selenium IDE.
Unfortunately, as a company that creates digital ads with a proprietary system, we aren't able to use Selenium for every product we create. This guided our attention to other automation softwares such as AutoIt, and Sikuli.
Since Sikuli is a Python based language, our first assumption was that Eclipse would no longer be of use to us. However, by installing various language packs into the Eclipse framework, we were able to expand our automation efforts to cover the scope of projects built with our proprietary system.
Unfortunately, as a company that creates digital ads with a proprietary system, we aren't able to use Selenium for every product we create. This guided our attention to other automation softwares such as AutoIt, and Sikuli.
Since Sikuli is a Python based language, our first assumption was that Eclipse would no longer be of use to us. However, by installing various language packs into the Eclipse framework, we were able to expand our automation efforts to cover the scope of projects built with our proprietary system.
- Eclipse is able to handle various coding languages, and as previously mentioned, this has been a huge benefit to my entire organization. Not only does our company build applications in various languages, our QA department uses automation programs which are language exclusive. The ability to install language packs within Eclipse has kept us from searching for any alternative development environment.
- Eclipse handles integration very easily. From the integration of Selenium, to the integration of Sikuli, Eclipse has handled the swap with ease. The simplest part integration is the ability to install additional kits/packs for those programs. Installation has been as simple as selecting "Help", and "Install new software".
- As a Quality Assurance professional, and a music composer who uses software such as Pro Tools, Logic, and Propellerhead Reason, I can assure you - Eclipse is one of the largest software programs I've ever used. Learning the possibilities of Eclipse can be truly overwhelming at times. I'd like to see tutorials added for first time users.
- At times, Eclipse has required restart. At times, this can be cumbersome when adding plug-ins, installs, or integrating/updating software. I'd like to install or update my software, then continue to write my code, and run my tests. Having to restart is a small issue, yet, an issue.
August 04, 2017
Eclipse - my own point of view.
Previously we all used TestComplete and I found it very uncomfortable. In my previous job I used Eclipse as development environment, so I decided to try it on my current place. My manager had no objections. So, actually, I'm only person in the company who uses Eclipse. Since I do automation with open source framework, I found Eclipse very comfortable.
- Easy to create projects.
- Ability to integrate various add-ons and tools (like Selenium).
- In fact, I'd prefer auto-update from version (of Eclipse) to version.
June 26, 2017
Lightweight and extensible IDE for developers
I started with Eclipse development as a Java IDE, then discovered it could handle many more programming languages such as C, Python, HTML/CSS/JS, PHP, and it grew to become my go-to application for general programming.
- Provides a broad range of programming language support. While the primary language support is Java, you can also add in support for C/C++, NodeJS, HTML/CSS/JS simply through the Eclipse Marketplace.
- Provides easy tools for debugging code. I have primarily used these when writing faulty Java and Python code.
- Provides an extensible plugin API for writing custom widgets. The Eclipse Marketplace hosts many useful utilities and extensions.
- I would like to see a better dark theme. The first few versions I used did not have one, but since, a few have been released, but I still find IntelliJ IDEA's Darcula theme to be better.
- It would be nice for Eclipse to work cleanly with other IDE projects without relying on external build tools. I once used a non-Maven/Gradle Java project to work with IntelliJ, and I managed to get it working, but I needed to re-write a few configuration files.
- The Eclipse "workspace" is where it stores the projects on the computer. There should be a better detection of modifications to this folder, or at least make the error conditions more understandable. For example, there have been times I have had projects not able to be opened or imported due to differences in the folder name or file structure of the folder in the workspace.
June 22, 2017
Eclipse, a Swiss army knife of IDEs
Eclipse is the main development environment that we use for writing code and making modifications to the existing source code. Using its different plugins we can access our database tables and even query an LDAP server.
- It's ideal for core Java and JAVA EE development.
- The visual builder plugins are excellent for making GUI, either in GWT or Swing applications.
- It has easy integration with source control management tools like GIT, SVN etc.
- Personally I think Eclipse is a wonderful product provided that its open source and community managed.
- I would like its Git/Gerrit plugin support to be better. It runs into strange merge issues when dealing with commits in multiple branches.
June 05, 2017
Eclipse IDE - Review
Eclipse is the main IDE of choice for my team which specializes in QA automation, there are multiple other teams that also use Eclipse in our company. Eclipse provides an open-source and extendable IDE for Java development. The fact that it is open-source is really beneficial and one of the reasons we chose it.
- Open source
- Extensible
- Code refactorization
- Code completion
- Appearance
- Lack of updated features, especially for 2017
Our MVP was originally coded in Java so when I jumped into the code base I used Eclipse Neon as my IDE. It had been 7-8 years since I had done any real Java development so I had to re-acquaint myself with the IDE. Overall it was a familiar feeling compared to when I had used Eclipse 7-8 years ago. The syntax highlighting was very helpful and I enjoyed seeing the different font styles as compared to Visual Studio. Neon was a quick and painless installation and was up and debugging in no time.
- Dark Theme
- SnipMatch
- Content-Assist
- Could use improved speed performance.
- Better C++ support
Eclipse Luna is a release of the Eclipse IDE. Eclipse has been my go-to IDE for Java, Python, Ruby and Javascript for nearly the entirety of my career. For Java I haven't found a comparable tool in terms of ease of use, breadth of features, and efficiency improvements. It's an added plus that it can handle dynamic languages like Python and Ruby reasonably well, allowing for more seamless development of hybrid applications. In my current role, I'm the only person using Eclipse (as I'm the only staff member actively involved in software development).
- Great refactoring tools for automated code creation and modification.
- Great integrated debugging tools for both console and web-server-based applications.
- Rich ecosystem of plugins allowing for integrated source control management, additional language support, dependency management, build chain, etc.
- Eclipse has a large memory footprint, making it difficult to code products with more complicated development environments (e.g. client-server architectures requiring multiple VMs).
- Eclipse can be buggy, sometimes requiring a random mix of "project..refresh, maven..update project, server...publish" cycles before a code update makes it out of the source code file to the locally running app. To my knowledge, JRebel is the only really good plugin out there that simplifies this, and it's proprietary/pay-to-license.
- Eclipse could improve its support for languages beyond Java.
March 27, 2017
Eclipse Luna Review
Eclipse is being used by several of our developers to write and update scripts. I specifically use it to maintain code in our Salesforce.com org. We've had issues with the built in Developer Console in Salesforce and Eclipse allows simple integration and code development, maintenance, and deployments.
- Integration with external repositories, e.g. Salesforce. Allows for seamless development and maintenance.
- Code validation and error handling are fairly robust.
- Deployment and implementation are just a few clicks, which makes everyone's lives easier and saves time.
- The UI is a bit cumbersome.
- Steep learning curve for anyone new to the IDE space.
October 10, 2016
Great IDE for developing and deploying code
We use Eclipse Luna as a Javascript editor and to integrate with the subversion repository to push scripts to our installation or our clients' installations. Eclipse Luna validates the Javascript code, makes it easy to share code across installations, and handles the integration with the repository so that code delivery is consistent across all users.
- Integration with code repositories
- Code validation and intelligent code completion
- Cross-Platform implementation
- UI is still a little clunky
- Too many steps to complete basic functions
September 19, 2016
An honest opinion on Eclipse Luna
I use Eclipse IDE for my projects and any JAVA related assignments. I believe that it is pretty widely used since I have seen many of my peers using it as well. I personally feel that it is a great IDE for building applications on a Java platform. Also the installations of some libraries over the market is pretty easy to use since we don't need to go to the browser to specifically download them and can do it directly from the market.
- As with all the IDEs Eclipse does indentations by itself and points out most of the syntactical errors which help me as a programmer very much, this is probably the most common feature found in all IDEs but it is also the most fragile feature as it can break your code with a small indentation error and probably won't know where to look for the error if you ever trust the IDE too much, I have had such problems with IDEs that I have used but not with Eclipse at least until now.
- I have not used this feature much but split editing is a wonderful feature in Eclipse which can be used to edit two parts of a program simultaneously. It is very useful especially when the lines of code are more than 10,000 which is often the case in moderate to huge sized projects.
- As I have previously mentioned, the Eclipse market allows you to install few of the third party libraries using the Eclipse graphical user interface rather than using a browser and the integrating it with Eclipse which can pop up issues.
- When installing and integrating third party libraries or application servers which are not present in the market, it is quite a pain. I have personally faced this issue and have wasted hours and hours trying to figure out the issue to no avail in most cases.
- I really feel that Eclipse takes too long to start up. I have a system with good specs and it still takes a while for Eclipse to load my system. Hanging while loading huge files for quite an amount of time has also been a well known issue.
- The error messages Eclipse pops up while integrating external libraries or any other issues other than errors in the code are vague and don't usually make sense to the user even though the user is a proficient programmer and has a good idea over computing a domain.
Eclipse is used as main IDE in my whole company. It is one of the most known IDE in the world, it has a great of community of people that keep it up to date. It is open to be customized as you need, you can also crate you eclipse based tool. It's also easy to develop plugins.
- Java developing. If you start learning shortcuts you can develop very very fast
- Very extensible. Is not only easy to develop, you can create your own tools starting from that.
- Well known, it's always easy to solve problems or to find plugins that you need
- Not so reliable. It's always affected by glitches or things that don't work well. Sometime you lose time keeping doing manual refresh and other things like that
- External languages recognition. You will have tons of validation problem if your project contains javascript and/or xml code