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Eclipse: The IDE for You?
November 29, 2017

Eclipse: The IDE for You?

Gregory Hanson | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with Eclipse

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.
  • Eclipse speeds up development which increases throughout. Projects can be easily prototyped, offering insight as to whether a strategy is viable.
  • Debugging tools increase code reliability and Eclipse makes it easy. Even server debugging tools are quite comprehensive giving integration platforms more stability.
  • Code integration with repositories, collaboration platforms and integrity validation is invaluable. Eclipse provides an excellent tool set.
Eclipse blows away NetBeans hands down. The community behind eclipse drives the product forward and demands the best in class services and plugins.

As Visual Studio is the only IDE suited for the MS platform, the environment is locked and tightly governed. Eclipse allows for a more open feel and Wild West environment while still maintaining the core stability developers clamor for and require.
Great for development especially in an agile work environment. SVN or Git integration is simple and collaboration is a thoughtful paradigm in Eclipse. While the tool is well suited for development, other IT departments would have little use for the bloat of the product. And example would be for software configuration management, a space where one IT firm recommends utilizing Eclipse but for which the product seems a bit too heavy.