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 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
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.
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 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 25, 2019
GPA Eclipse Review
Eclipse is a program that is not used by many people at our school. Our 6th, 7th, and 8th graders use it in a programming class that we offer at our school. It allows our students to develop programs with the Java programming language. We had used other programs before but found that this was the easiest for our students to use.
- It is a really good program for developing with Java.
- The user interface allows for even the most beginner of students to be able to learn.
- There are times where it can be glitchy, so that could be improved upon.
- The online support could be a little better.
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.
We use Eclipse for all Java project development in the department. Most of the times when dealing with some complex problems which can only be solved using Java logic, we have to rely on Java development and use an IDE. Eclipse is one of the oldest and most popular IDE kits. Eclipse helps with business problems like fast Java application development with proper industry standards. The third party integrator and connectors help a lot to make the finest and crafted end product.
- Third party integration services are easy to implement and track bugs easily. Helps in faster development of the project.
- Code Editor and the User Interface is more than awesome to work with.
- Large Eclipse community makes it possible to install and setup the environment for the development of industry level projects.
- Eclipse workspace should be encrypted within the OS drive so that someone handling the same machine cannot get to your project and development easily.
- Eclipse takes a lot of time to start and initialize. The kick-start time should be like a code editor. Once started, then it can gather resources.
- The IDE is suitable only for Java developers. Though there are a lot of plugins for different languages, it should have a standalone IDE for other languages too.
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.
November 28, 2018
Eclipse review
Eclipse is used across my organization. Code Completion is the main feature, instead of digging through documentation you should be able to tab your way through methods and save yourself a lot of writing.
- Global Find and Replace is no replacement for good refactoring support, that starts with renaming functions, variables, classes.
- Syntax Checking, helping you out with writing correct code while you type.
- Pressing ALT+F8 to start a transaction (like SE11 for data dictionary) takes forever, if it has to “search” for it.
- (Implicit) Enhancements are impossible.
August 16, 2018
Excellent IDE to create your projects and develop at a high level has multiple tools.
Eclipse is a very useful tool for small projects that needs a very useful tool for JAVA programmers in general. We use it daily I really like having a text editor with a syntax marker whose compilation is in real time. You can do many activities in a single application, such as unit tests with JUnit version control with CVS and integration with Ant, which is very useful and decreases the delivery time of the work. You can also add the add-in to provide more features. It is a lightweight platform for software components.
- It has an excellent autocompiler and provides a lot of help with all its libraries.
- It is very useful and decreases the time of delivery of the work. You can also add the add-in to provide more features.
- It is a good IDE to program in Java and shows compilation errors during the programs. It has utility for many add-ons to generate web services.
- What I dislike most about Eclipse is the consumption of system resources because it does not work for old computers.
- It is developed for people who are already professionals and not beginners because the learning curve is broad and lacks support for webapps as if it were NetBeans.
- It needs to be more intuitive and it would be nice to add more add-ons and tutorials to help beginners.
Currently, I use eclipse in my organization as the main work tool to be the most stable and powerful development environment in the market. Thanks to Eclipse, I develop applications based on JAVA business and J2EE for large and medium companies. At the moment I am developing an integration to process the payroll data of a company with a MAVEN project and I find it quite comfortable and easy to include the libraries through the import tools included in this development environment.
Also, I strongly recommend the DEBUG mode of this environment because it is understandable and easy to use. Among the disadvantages of this application, I can mention that there are some incompatibilities due to a large number of existing versions, maybe they can improve more in this sense by facilitating compatibility with some intermediate applications.
- Excellent for creating MAVEN projects with different libraries quickly and safely.
- Easy integration with GIT, the plugin that provides the environment is quite complete
- An easy-to-use debug perspective to facilitate application testing.
- It is a bit limited to develop applications with high graphic content.
- A large number of existing versions make it susceptible to incompatibilities.
- It does not have much documentation for the Hispanic community.
March 30, 2018
Best tool to create web based applications
It is used by our organization to create microgrid projects for customers. We also create web-based applications using Java language.
- It provides an interface to build web application easily.
- Provides support to integrate, to debug and manage the code.
- Easy to fix code issues in the shortest amount of time.
- After updating version, there are still some crashing problems while building project solutions.
- Needs improvement in performance as it take some time to load and sync the code.
- It should support auto upload third library feature.
Our company uses Eclipse as its integrated development environment for building Java web applications and testing/integration applications with Oracle Utility Billing.
- Flexibility and openness. Eclipse provides the ability to accept numerous open source plugins related to code syntax review, runtime server integration, code repository, and deployment.
- Open Source. Downloadable and free, frequently updated, and supported by a large developer community.
- Easy to use. Eclipse supports numerous views/layouts based on the types of development, debugging, testing, or performance results you are looking for.
- The UI is beginning to look a bit dated out of the box. Visual Studio as an example, has made vast improvements and has driven forward with a better user experience.
- Eclipse can have some slight responsiveness issues (slowness) in a Windows environment and the JVM may be part of the cause.
- Eclipse is sometimes challenging to set up and install with its various dependencies in a Windows environment