Developing in Eclipse
October 24, 2019
Developing in Eclipse
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Overall Satisfaction with Eclipse
Our development team currently uses Eclipse for our J2EE web application. We develop and debug using the tool to deliver quality software to our business users.
- Free IDE which was an easy sell to upper management to use.
- Very easy to set up development environment to get started.
- There is a community of users which can be helpful if needed.
- Debugging feature not as polished as other paid IDE tools.
- When moving from different Git branches, I've noticed Eclipse sometimes breaks my local setup at different levels. I have to waste time to diagnose the problem.
- I wish there was better debugging mechanism when debugging our web application.
- Since Eclipse is free for development, there is definitely an ROI when delivering our code base since we do spend a good amount of money on other aspects of our application.
- Sometimes issues arise which can take some time to figure out causing the development team to waste time.
- The feature set we currently use in Eclipse is helpful to diagnose different issues.
I used IDEA prior to using Eclipse. I loved how easy I can debug in both, but the debugging feature in IDEA is just way more polished then Eclipse. Other than that, Eclipse was easy to setup and start with.
Do you think Eclipse delivers good value for the price?
Yes
Are you happy with Eclipse's feature set?
Yes
Did Eclipse live up to sales and marketing promises?
I wasn't involved with the selection/purchase process
Did implementation of Eclipse go as expected?
Yes
Would you buy Eclipse again?
Yes