Is Eclipse the best IDE for Java

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Is Eclipse the best IDE for Java    If not  is there something better    I want to know and possibly try it out   Thanks

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IntelliJ is good one but its not free  Then NetBeans is also a good option Also if you are IBM suite WSAD is good

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Eclipse was the first IDE to move me off of XEmacs   However  when my employer offered to buy me a Intellij IDEA license if I wanted one it only took 3 days with an evaluation copy to convince me to go for it   It seems like so many small things are just nicer

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Eclipse   It can be slow at times and uses a lot of memory but it works well

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Let me just start out by saying that Eclipse is a fantastic IDE for Java and many other languages   Its plugin architecture and its extensibility are hard to rival and the fact that it s free is a huge plus for smaller teams or tight budgets   A few things that I hate about Eclipse    The documentation is really lacking   I don t know who writes the stuff  but if it s not just flatly missing  it s incomplete   If it s not incomplete  then it s just flat out wrong  I have wasted many precious hours trying to use a given feature in Eclipse by walking through its documentation only to discover that it was all trash to begin with  Despite the size of the project  I have found the community to be very lacking and or confusing enough to be hard to participate in   I have tried several times to get help on a particular subject or plugin only to be sent to 3 or 4 different newsgroups who all point to the other newsgroup or just plain don t respond   This can be very frustrating  as much smaller open source products that I use are really good about answering questions I have   Perhaps it s simply a function of the size of the community  If you need functionality beyond the bundled functionality of one of their distros  for instance  the Eclipse for Java EE Developers distro which bundles things like the WTP   I have found the installation process for extra plugins excruciatingly painful  I don t know why they can t make that process simpler  or maybe I m just spoiled on my Mac at home and don t know how bad it really is out in the  real  world  but if I m not just unsuccessful  oftentimes it s a process of multiple hours to get a new plugin installed  This was supposedly one of their goals in 3 4  to make installation of new projects simpler   if they succeeded  I can t tell  Documentation in the form of books and actual tutorials is sorely lacking  I want a master walkthrough for something as dense and feature-rich as Eclipse  something that says   hey  did you know about this feature and how it can really make you more productive    As far as I ve found  nothing like that exists  If you want to figure out Eclipse  you ve got one option  sit down and play with it  literally play with it  not just see a feature and go and read the documentation for it  because that probably doesn t exist or is wrong     Despite these things  Eclipse really is a great IDE  Its refactoring tooling works tremendously well  The handling of Javadoc works perfectly  All of features we ve come to expect of an IDE are their  code completion  templates  integration with various SCMSs  integration with build systems    Its code formatting and cleanup tools are very powerful   I find its build system to work well and intuitively   I think these are the things upon which its reputation is really built   I don t have enough experience with other IDEs or with other distros of Eclipse  I ve seen RAD at work quite a few times  I can t believe anyone would pay what they re charging for that  to comment on them  but I ve been quite happy with Eclipse for the most part  One tip I have heard from multiple places is that if you want Eclipse without a lot of the hassle that can come with its straight install  go with a for-pay distro of it  My Eclipse is a highly recommended version that I ve seen all over the net that is really very affordable  last I heard   50 for the distro plus a year of free upgrades   If you have the budget and need the added functionality  I d go with something like that   Anyway  I ve tried to be as detailed as I can  I hope this helps and good luck on your search

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I d have to vote for Netbeans as the best one currently   Eclipse is decent  but right now Netbeans is better

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I am going to have to recommend Oracle JDeveloper  I personally thought that Eclipse was the best Java IDE too at one point  Then I was introduced to Oracle JDeveloper by my job  I find the UI design much better than Eclipse  Also it comes with an incredible amount of features built in including great support for EJB3  JSF  WebServices  etc  It is essentially an IDE for the entire JavaEE stack  and the Oracle ADF framework as well   - All of the tools you will  probably  need for JavaEE development come with this IDE right out of the box  no plugins required  unless you download the minimalist version

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I have experience with using JCreator LE  I like it because it is easy to use and it is free  Give it a try if it interests you

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I gave Eclipse a 3 months ride at my new work  but after that I found out that normal Maven project can be run in IntelliJ IDEA too  unless it s Eclipse plugin EMF something of course  -    3 months are not enough to compare it with 8  years with IDEA  but it s enough to claim I gave it a fair try  I decided to live with its perspectives  other IDEs don t need them   with its poor debugger  doesn t show date values unless you click on them  etc    with its comparatively worse completion than IDEA has   Now after all those years IDEA is also free  community edition  and I use it without much trouble  Of course I miss some of those  Ultimate  features of paid version  but it s far better than Eclipse  Biggest difference is the whole mindset needed for both of these IDEs  But after you master the mindset of either I can t understand what can anyone hold to Eclipse - unless you need its plugin ecosystem or you have some serious investments there   Example of  mindset  differences  You have to save in Eclipse  not in IDEA  and I don t care what is better or worse - but you have to save in Eclipse to let him clean up underlined errors that are not errors anymore  etc   -  You have to save there in order to get rid of errors in other files too  because other file doesn t see the changes otherwise   I blogged much more about this topic - and yes  I m biased  though I tried to be as little as possible  But after some time it wasn t simply possible   -    http   virgo47 wordpress com 2011 01 30 eclipse-vs-intellij-idea  http   virgo47 wordpress com 2011 02 22 from-intellij-idea-to-eclipse-2  http   virgo47 wordpress com 2011 03 24 from-intellij-idea-to-eclipse-3  http   virgo47 wordpress com 2011 04 10 from-intellij-idea-to-eclipse-4    And no  not even IDEA is perfect  I know it  Because I use it a lot  But it is the best Java IDE if you ask me  Even the Community edition

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IntelliJ IDEA was awsome  Now it is just  better than Eclipse   You can code in IDEA several times faster than in Eclipse in my experience  I moved from being an Eclipse early-adopter to IDEA and haven t looked back  but IDEA has a number of flaws    Full version is not free   It hogs memory Project management is not great Jetbrains keep bringing out minor enhancements and calling them major releases  IDEA is now slower and buggier than it was a few years ago  And you get charged for the pleasure   IDEA now has a free Community Edition    I still wouldn t go back though  the code refactorings and intentions in IDEA are just too good   A major version of Eclipse came out a while back and it took me about an hour of searching on the website to figure out what was actually contained in the release which might persuade me back into the fold  Visit JetBrains to see how to sell an IDE

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Agreeing with the others  Netbeans is a pretty good IDE which also caters for other languages  PHP  Ruby  C C    if you re prone to using any of those  Then you get the added benefit of knowing your way around the IDE when deciding to pick up a new language   To be fair however  I haven t had much time with the eclipse IDE

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I d agree with some of the others out there saying that NetBeans and IntelliJ are both good IDEs   And I d say that in using all three  Eclipse   other two   that Eclipse is by far my favorite   I found some of the documentation out-dated  but also found the support community very helpful   I started using Eclipse by jumping into the deep end of the pool   writing an RCP before ever learning the IDE   The IDE was intuitive to use  and when I found the right news groups to post to - most of my questions were already answered   The hardest thing for me  and frustrating  admittedly  was knowing how to phrase my search terms in order to get to the answer that was already posted   Remember that Eclipse is still  relatively new  as an IDE player  though given that - it s pretty darn robust   My only complaint about Eclipse is that with each new release  it seems to hog up more resources   With a mid-sized project workspace  it takes seemingly forever to build  or rebuild  the project   Compared to IntelliJ  it s faster and more intuitive to use

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In my opinion if you got the resources to use  then go with eclipse  NetBeans which is awesome like eclipse is another best option  these are the only 2 I ve ever used  loved  needed  wanted   Eclipse is hands down the most popular  and for good reason   Hope this helps

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This is subjective    I find it to be a good tool   It depends what kind of development you re doing - for EJB stuff  many folk would favour Netbeans  It also depends how much you want to spend - I assume you re talking about free IDEs

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Eclipse can t remotely be called an IDE to my opinion  Okay that s exaggerated  I know  It merely reflects my intense agony thanks to eclipse  Whatever you do  it just doesn t work  You always need to fight with it to make it do things the right way  During that time  you re not developing code which is what you re supposed to do  right  eclipse and maven integration  unreliable  Eclipse and ivy integration  unreliable  WTP  buggy buggy buggy  Eclipse and wstl validation  buggy  It complains about not finding URL s out of the blue even though they do exist  and a few days later  without having changed them  it suddenly does find them etc etc  I Could write a frakking book about it  To answer your question  NO ECLIPSE IS NOT EVEN CLOSE THE BEST IDE    IntelliJ is supposed to be MUCH better

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It is often said that there are better IDE s for various languages  eg Java  than Eclipse   The power of Eclipse is that it s basically the same IDE for many languages  meaning that if you know you ll have to code in several programming languages  Java  C    Python  it s a huge advantage that you only have to learn one IDE  Eclipse

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There is no best IDE  You make it as good as you get used using it

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I don t know if Eclipse is THE BEST Java IDE  but it is definitely very decent and my favorite IDE  I tried IntelliJ briefly before  and found that it s pretty similar to Eclipse  IntelliJ might offer some nicer features  but Eclipse is free and open source   I never really tried NetBean because I know Eclipse before I know NetBean   Eclipse is my favorite because    Free Extensible  to a point that you can turn it in to C   IDE or DB Development IDE  Open source I know how to write Eclipse plugin You can develop a product easily with Eclipse  exp  Lime Wire is Eclipse under the hood    If you are used to using conventional Java IDE like JCreator you might need some time to get used to Eclipse  I remember when I first learned Eclipse  I didn t know how to compile Java source       I would suggest that in order to find the best IDE FOR YOU  try what people recommended  NetBean  Eclipse  and IntelliJ   and see which one you like the most  then stick with it and become an expert of it  Having the right IDE will boost up your productivity a lot in my opinion

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I used IntelliJ for almost 5  years  from v1 5 to v7  and around 8 months ago I migrated to IBM RAD  which is built on top of old eclipse platform  and around 3 months ago I settled down with Eclipse  Ganymede    I used IntelliJ on a mid size projects  with 10k classes  and I m using Eclipse on one with just few hundreds of classes   I found both of these IDEs  IntelliJ and Eclipse  to be good  IBM RAD is just a waste of money  ofcourse one could be stuck in an IBM shop without choice    IntelliJ has far superior refactoring capabilities and keyboard shortcuts for most of the features compared to Eclipse  It supports importing projects from Eclipse  It has better built in xml handling capabilities  with refactorings applicable almost like for the java code   Built in Intelli Sense is also very good   Eclipse is a great tool and its free  It took me around 1-2 months to get used to Eclipse from IntelliJ  lot of unlearning of shortcuts   but I got hang of Eclipse  it has been pretty smooth  I havent used Eclipse on mid size project   Both IntelliJ and Eclipse have active plugin communities and both integrate well with version control systems  unit test frameworks  application servers and profilers   IntelliJ started becoming slow and bloated starting from v4 0  It was slow with mid size projects  I would not use IntelliJ unless its performance can be improved   I havent used these two IDEs for anything other than java development   If you are a java developer and your company pays for IntelliJ and if your project is not too big  go for it  Otherwise  dont despair  Eclipse is always there

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Talking about java Ide it is better to go for NetBeans In My opinion it is better and provide great advantage over other ide but it has disadvantage over Eclipse that it grabs more more while working but do to its features and support i suggest Netbeans than any ide

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There is no best IDE  You make it as good as you get used using it

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This is not really an answer  just an anecdote  I worked with guys who used emacs heavily loaded with macros and color coded  Crazy  Why do that when there are so many good IDEs out there    if you know you way around emacs you can code 100x faster then an IDE  And it can handle bunch of diffrent languages so you do not need to change your coding enviroment if you need to code in another language  Works on all operating systems  you can custimize add anything you want  Even edit files half way across the world over ssh  no downloading or uploading   Before calling them crazy you gotto use it first  i am sure they are calling you crazy for using an IDE

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This is not really an answer  just an anecdote   I worked with guys who used emacs heavily loaded with macros and color coded   Crazy   Why do that when there are so many good IDEs out there

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Don t forget that Eclipse Platform was started by IBM  There are few platforms out there    IBM Websphere Application Developer  WSAD  and or Rational Application Developer  RAD  which is a Eclipse-type IDE from IBM  actually  that s Eclipse with IBM specialized libraries plugins    MyEclipse  never used it but it s another Eclipse-type IDE  Sun Microsystem s NetBeans  It s too Java-centric as it s designed to create applications purely in java  NetBeans runs in Java    IntelliJ  to name but a few  Oracle JDeveloper  I never really liked the directory structure layout JDeveloper creates     The advantage with Eclipse is that it can be customized to your development pleasure  plugins can be written for Eclipse to conform to your needs  e g  The Eclipse  Easy Explorer  plugin for browsing the directory of your source in Windows Explorer   Eclipse allows you to also incorporate other languages SDK s  such as C    Silverlight projects  Android Projects for development  You can also easily manage resources in Eclipse   In my experience NetBeans are resource intensive  Oracle JDeveloper and IntelliJ aren t free though  Oh yes  If you have issues or bugs with Eclipse  Eclipse has the ability to restart and submit the crash to Eclipse servers

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