Eclipse review
November 28, 2018
Eclipse review
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Overall Satisfaction with Eclipse
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.
- Error debugging is easy, you can easily navigate to Error line.
- Organizing your imports.
- All files can be viewed and managed at same screen.
Eclipse looks better (though this is a matter of taste). All this fuss about SWT and native controls was worth it. Eclipse looks like a solid well thought-out application with pretty fonts and icons, while IDEA at first glance looks like a stunt toy with lame hack icons and awkward Swing interface.
Using Eclipse
200 - It serves as an Integrated Development Environment