Best free IDE for Java developers
April 30, 2018
Best free IDE for Java developers
Score 9 out of 10
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Overall Satisfaction with Eclipse
Eclipse is the corporate standard IDE for the FedEx IT department, majorly for the Java based system development. Some dedicated team also uses its C++ version and Python version. Most of FedEx in-house built IT solutions are implemented with the help of the Eclipse, which includes the traditional J2EE application, Java Client, SOAP and RESTful services, etc.
- Coding is kind of fun, straight forward
- Easy to use
- Fully configurable and very flexible
- Rich functions
- Many great plug-ins to follow the latest technical trends
- Sometimes due to default enabled validation mechanism (difficult for the beginner to fully understand how and where to customize all options) Eclipse performance will suffer
- Plug-in installation is tricky and does not always work well
- Crashes due to the plug-in issues without giving useful trouble shooting messages
- It enables quick development, code sharing, reviewing and testing.
Eclipse is better than NetBeans from many perspectives. IntelliJ is even better than Eclipse, but it is not for free