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 Ma…
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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
July 02, 2022
One of the best development IDE for java developers
We use Eclipse for writing java code and we have created an Eclipse plugin for our development as well. My day to day work is involved with Eclipse as I am a java developer. Developing code, starting servers and version controlling are very straightforward. Eclipse provides a lot of plugins to use. For example, we can use various plugins to detect code smells.
- Simple UI for development.
- A lot of plugins to use. (Unit testing plugins, code formatter plugins, etc)
- Eclipse is free.
- Very suited for managing large projects.
- Even though the UI is simple, Eclipse can work on its UI especially since beginners find it hard to find options and features.
- I feel like eclipse can optimize its performance.
- In my personal usage I am facing a lot of crashes when using multiple work spaces. I think eclipse can improve its memory management.
April 26, 2022
Free doesn't mean lacking in features
We use Eclipse for developing the software. The software is developed in JAVA with a usage of Spring, Hibernate and some other frameworks. As we can choose from 2 IDE products within our IT department, it can be used by whoever decides to use it. It addresses business problems connected with our software.
- Free of charge
- Customizable
- Plugin integration
- Easy to use
- Sometimes freezes
- It would be great to have some built-in code replacement feature
October 25, 2021
Eclipse is a great IDE and cost free!
We currently use Eclipse IDE for some departments that like to use this IDE for software development. Our developers use it to quickly write code and deploy as it is easy to use and onboard new devs on it. It is also written to write unit testing for some of our applications. We also use Eclipse to deploy and test the applications using third-party tools which can be directly integrated into eclipse like TestNG.
- Free of cost
- Easy to use and onboard with simple UI
- Ton of Debugging options/features
- Code completion is really solid
- Sometimes it feels Eclipse is clunky and it takes a lot of processing power
- It is great for some languages, but not all. It was hard to code in Java for example
- Not too many integrations with other testing apps/3rd party apps
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.
Eclipse is our chosen IDE (Integrated Development Environment) of choice for all of our Java applications. We have been using it to build thick and thin client applications for the past 14 years to solve internal and external issues. Eclipse, with its plugin framework, allows it to be extended and integrate with most technologies providing a familiar environment no matter the technology used.
- Maven Integration and Support
- Subversion/Git integration
- Eclipse has a large foot print
- Updated versions require you to build out your plugins and migrate your projects
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 17, 2020
A great tool to work alongside SAP GUI
Currently, Eclipse is being used by the technical team (developers) and the business intelligence team, for both software development and big data report generation. Because it's an SAP consultancy firm, sometimes it needs to be used alongside with SAP Netweaver (SAP GUI) for additional features.
- ABAP development.
- Java development.
- It's a heavy tool and usually crashes.
- The UI could be more modern.
January 17, 2020
Modern Java Development IDE
We are using Eclipse for building modern apps for multiple platforms such as Android, web, and desktop. Eclipse made it easy to deploy applications on cloud platforms due to the availability of plugins, and it is very easy to build a maven project based on Java using Eclipse. I have been using Eclipse for more than 5 years for both desktop and web-based application development. Vibrant support for the various tools of the Java enterprise makes the development of web-based applications a lot more effective and time-saving.
- Simplified IDE makes it easy to write clean and efficient code.
- Debugging is very easy in Eclipse.
- Sometimes it crashes on loading big projects.
- More language support is required such as python.
January 16, 2020
Eclipse IDE- easy to use and free!
I was a developer for a startup based in Houston. I used the Eclipse IDE to mainly develop Java applications. The Eclipse Software Development Kit(SDK) includes Java developers is meant for Java developers like me. It is free and open-source software. It also helped me develop applications in other programming languages via plug-ins. It really benefited our company as being the one IDE that supports programming in multiple languages.
- Great framework for building Java applications.
- Tons of great tools to add on it.
- Running off and building something when the user doesn't ask it to.
- Loses its way often/glitches which can require a restart.
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.
November 21, 2019
Eclipse - Ocean of Plugins
Eclipse is being used across the organization on various platforms. Multiple projects built on Java are implemented on Eclipse.
- Integration with database drivers.
- Availability of plugins for pretty much any implementation that can be seamlessly integrated.
- Ability to profile the code to identify memory and data leaks causing the application to slow down.
- On some configurations, Eclipse can get extremely slow in responding, and its a known issue with many users facing similar problems. This is very inconsistent.
- Some versions of Eclipse does not support the automatic code completion for JavaServer Faces and JavaFX tags.
November 05, 2019
Eclipse: a decent open-source tool for development
Eclipse is used by various people but is not generally used by the organization. I was a user before I started at SurveyMonkey and continued to use it up until early in 2019. The company has generally not encouraged any particular IDE until this year. Most folks tended to use SublimeText, with a fair number using PyCharm, and only a few of us on Eclipse. Those of us using Eclipse like it's fully integrated debugging environment for Python (which also attracted users to PyCharm, which is essentially Eclipse with paid-for enhancements). I particularly liked being able to use it to access SQL Server in the same environment as Python and Javascript.
- It is very good at managing many files under edit. I like the ability to manage multiple projects and multiple files. It supports a wide variety of file formats with type-specific syntax formatting.
- I like the integrated debugging facility. In particular, we used a remote file system debugger with Python in external VMs to great effect.
- I like the ability to access multiple types of databases in the integrated development environment. It provides connectors for a wide variety of databases and supports most basic DB access methods.
- GIT integration is very effective. You can easily manage repositories and connect them to projects, and the project integration into GIT is virtually seamless.
- While the DB integration is broad (many connectors) it isn't particularly deep. So if you need to do serious DB work on (for example) SQL Server, it is sometimes necessary to go directly to the SQL Server Studio. But for general access and manipulation, it is ok.
- The syntax formatting is sometimes painful to set up and doesn't always support things well. For example, it doesn't effectively support SCSS.
- Using it for remote debugging in a VM works pretty well, but it is difficult to set up and there is no documentation I could find to really explain how to do it. When remote debugging, the editor does not necessarily integrate the remote context. So, for example, things like Pylint don't always find the libraries in the VM and display spurious errors.
- The debugging console is not the default, and my choice is never remembered, so every time I restart my program, it's a dialog and several clicks to get it back. The debugging console has the same contextual problems with remote debugging that the editor does.
October 29, 2019
Eclipse is the IDE for SAP developers
I've used Eclipse since my student days as it is a very versatile development environment. Currently, we use Eclipse as the preferred way to write ABAP code for the SAP environment, and to manage our HANA landscape. Eclipse is mainly used by our developers and IT staff, and we have used it with our clients as well.
- Eclipse, through its library of tools, is exceptionally broad and can be customized to suit just about any situation.
- Eclipse SAP HANA tools are the best way to manage a HANA database.
- Eclipse SAP ABAP tools are the preferred way to develop CDS views and modern ABAP programs.
- The biggest issue I have with Eclipse is probably its biggest selling point: it's so big that it can be quite cumbersome to get the appropriate tools and configuration set up for your use case.
- I'd like to see (maybe) a lightweight distribution of Eclipse that comes with specific tools for specific purposes (SAP specifically).