Item: Eclipse
Rating: 8
Author: Ronald Melendez

Overall Satisfaction with Eclipse

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

I have used it as the main IDE to develop products in java and jsf - primefaces and jsp, the truth is a very powerful IDE which can be integrated with several technologies, for example when working with continuous integration there are very useful plugins such as may task incubator integration with git directly in the IDE, it has the facility to create Maven projects, the truth is very complete.

It has many versions which you can choose to work with, there are also many IDE's that are based on Eclipse, which allows working with several environments, and which can be oriented to different types and technologies. The large number of plugins that it has allows you to configure in a flexible way for your workspace.

Pros and Cons

Pros

can be integrated with continuous integration
supports different types of programming languages
supports different servers
perform unit tests with JUnit quickly using a plugins

Cons

it's very heavy
it embraces a lot with the servers and you have to run a lot of clean and build
some configurations are very cumbersome

Return on Investment

continuous integration
streamline unit tests
ability to upload to git directly from the ide
integrate several technologies into a project

Alternatives Considered

NetBeans and IntelliJ IDEA

They are very similar but eclipse has greater availability of plugins that allow you to achieve much more satisfactory results, in the products that are developed, the basic configurations are a bit more difficult than in NetBeans but they are much more specific and much more complete, which allows having a little more control over the ide, eclipse is also a little less heavy than NetBeans.

For example, in my case I started to work with eclipse, before working with other IDE's and I found it quite comfortable and intuitive, at first it scares the amount of options you have but once you get used to it it is very simple, it has a learning curve very short what if you have already worked with other IDE's is very easy to grasp the trick.

Other Software Used

NetBeans, IntelliJ IDEA, BlueJeans

Likelihood to Recommend

I like to work with Eclipse when I have to develop very large and robust projects. It also allows me to integrate several technologies into a project. I like it a lot when I use continuous integration since it handles the necessary plugins for that and works all from the IDE. The truth is, it is very comfortable to work from the IDE, perform unit tests quickly and easily and is ideal when you are going to work with Java-based technologies.

When you have a robust project with several layers, it is ideal to use Eclipse since you can define a very complex architecture and you can approach it in a very simple way. When you create a project from scratch you can use several configurations to prepare your project architecture much more readable.

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Eclipse is awesome!