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Eclipse IDE - Review
June 05, 2017

Eclipse IDE - Review

Anonymous | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 6 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with Eclipse

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
  • Positive as it has saved us costly licensing fees from other IDEs
  • Negative impact possibly on developer quality of life and day to day
  • Positive for being easy to setup and use, saving time
Eclipse performs functionally perfectly well for Java development, but stacked up against more modern IDEs such as JetBrains IntelliJ, it is hard to side with an outdated application like Eclipse. IntelliJ has a lot of developer quality of life features such as code linting, built in developer tools, and a modern UI.
Eclipse is perfectly suited for business solutions that require an open source Java IDE with code completion, extensibility with a suite of marketplace addons, features such as easy refactoring, workspaces and years of support and documentation. I personally prefer JetBrains' IntelliJ over Eclipse if able to have a license purchased.