Eclipse continues to be one of the best Java IDEs available. My specific use case is not with Java, but particularly ABAP via the extension ABAP development tools. It is a great leap ahead of the traditional development via SE80 in the SAP client. Eclipse is very extensible and has existed for a long time, which allows to have a great set of add-ons available to enhance your development. Also, SAP has focused all its new features on Eclipse. Now tools and frameworks such as CDS, RAP, AMDP are only available on Eclipse.

It has a steep learning curve. When you open it for the first time, it can be overwhelming to look at so many options, menus. You also have to understand views and perspectives to make full use of it.It can also look outdated, especially when you compare it to IDEs with modern UIs such as Visual Studio Code which is one of the most popular ones.

Its great to use and lot better than most of the IDE's which are used for similar purpose

The IDE is small in size and provides a lot of features and only the extensions which we are using in the project, we can just add that in our project, thus making the final Jar smaller, which is a very good feature. I really like the IDE this way.

The collaboration with other tools is a bit of research that needs to be done in order to use it correctly

Overall the benefits of it being free and having lots of basic tutorials available did not outweigh the issues of the user interface and poor experience. I decided to go with IntelliJ IDE and was much happier overall.

As a former user, I'd say that the biggest benefits of Eclipse (while I used it) were the low price and the dearth of web content on using it. I was exploring Java applets as a tool in handling some internal tasks on a Intranet, so I wasn't even sure whether Java was the right choice for me. Being able to fire up a free yet capable IDE and follow some tutorials allowed me to test my proof of concept fairly quickly.

What led me to go with another product (IntelliJ IDEA) was the fact that the user interface and experience are just not enjoyable. The approach to debugging is very convoluted. I don't code very often, so at first I assumed it was normal. After trying a few other IDEs I realized that the whole Debug View approach seemed needlessly complicated, as a layperson. The UI is not very presentable, and it has some delays in refactoring and displaying that perhaps are a side effect of it being needlessly complex. Also, the dearth of tutorials and plugins were good at first but then I ran into the issue that the software is changing so much that the tutorials and plugins were oftentimes irrelevant or rendered obsolete.

Overall, you can def get the job done with Eclipse. They really do put their heart and soul into the product, and the fact that it has such a strong long-lived community says a lot. I think if you are a hardcore developer or engineer, Eclipse is a great candidate for your champion IDE, but if you are seasoned old guy like myself, I prefer simplicity, more purpose-built IDE's; aka I prefer less features and more mastery in my IDE. As such my go-to's are often a hodgepodge of tools that compliment each other (due the type of work I often do). As such, I don't use Eclipse as much as some. I recommend you check it out -- see if it's your style and if so, buy them some coffee -- they really do a great job and I applaud them for being so dedicated over the years.

The Eclipse team really does care about their product. It's really is amazing how it just seems to do a bit of everything. When I was first introduced to Eclipse, now 8+ years ago, it was a bit overwhelming. I was coming from a background using Vi/Vim, and being thrown into Eclipse is a bit like sky diving when you are used to a trampoline. That said, if you love features, and you love customizing your environment this is def the product you want to roll with. There are SO many integrations that it makes it feel like a no-brainer.

Some of the things that make Eclipse so great can also make it bit too 'loud' and/or cumbersome. I liken Eclipse to the 'kitchen sink' analogy -- it seems to come with everything, even the 'kitchen sink' (an old American idiom). Meaning, it has so much included with it that it makes other IDE's seem small in comparison. However, when you start with 'everything' thrown at you at once, it can be a bit confusing and less 'purpose built' for small tasks.

The IDE was used for the development of applications and extensions of monitoring tools. In addition to the implementation of devops flows.

It is very easy to customize and extend it based on plugins, in addition to the debugging functions that allow the development of applications to be simpler, being able to condition the execution to the productive environment for which the application is intended.

The IDE has a lot of plugins and many of them are not compatible, and you can only tell when you are using the IDE, causing it to become unstable.

Despite the shortcomings, I can say that it's more pleasant to create for Android in Eclipse using the plugin than using Android Studio. That's because the development of the supporting part of Eclipse is phenomenal. He helps you with things that clearly someone needed to use and took the trouble to develop. For example, for Android the help to find errors or gaps in internationalization is much more efficient in Eclipse than in Android Studio. When I used it for Java and PHP some things were like that, but then you stumble across something someone else did too lazy or in a hurry, and you get stuck.

It is a complete IDE, with many support tools, many plugins and support for many popular programming languages. It has "versions" with embedded items, making it easy to install for this or that purpose, such as IOT projects or embedded electronics, PHP or Java. If you don't have another tool, with Eclipse you can create your end-to-end product and deliver.

First off, Eclipse is free, but I put an average price. This is because despite not having a license cost, you have cost of use in productivity. If you take twice as much time on tool X it already costs you hours of production. I find Eclipse old-fashioned, heavy, huge and dated. It's not nice to use Eclipse, it's just functional. And he has many errors in obscure canvases that look like they were made twenty years ago.

I used to use it for Java development and Android development. However now I use Android studio for Android and don't tend to require Java development.

I found it simple to use and pick up for Java development. Was relatively flexible and offered lots of plugin customisations

The software for the most part was ok. It did nothing particularly special. So for niche uses (such as Android development) its development use is not as feature rich and lost out to those uses.

I started using this when I started developing Java and switched to another ide because I didn't like its interface.

Great to have so many integrations. It also runs the codes really fast.

hard for beginners users, i started coding java first with eclipse and i had a hard time. The interface is complex so I wouldn't recommend it if you're just starting out.

Eclipse is one of the best IDE out there. I used this to complete of my college project Course Management System. What i like about this is the ability to create java swing UI with drag and drop features which saved me a lot of time.

When i used this to create UI of java swing there was a bug in MAC OS which was it refreshes every time i drag and drop component which drain my battery fast

We use the Java IDE to manage the code written in c++ to access the devices on the ATM and check their status and make the outputs meaningful. These devices are devices such as card reader, cash dispenser, receipt printer, pinpad. Using Eclipse IDE is a blessing for the software developer because it pleases the developer with every feature. My favorite features are code completion, extensible plugins, drag and drop feature, simple and straightforward interface, meaningful bugs, debug mechanism and most importantly community support.

I am very happy with Eclipse IDE, I love every feature of it.

It contains many significant features, including automatic syntax validation and assistance with code reworking. There isn't a need to install a new IDE because it is an all-encompassing IDE that enables development in a variety of languages; all we have to do is install the required plugins inside the app. Teams can use it to guarantee that their applications are operating correctly and at peak efficiency.

Eclipse's ability to offer a standard platform for the creation of multiple software technologies is one of its strongest features. It helps with no code revision after execution by identifying issues before the code is executed. Wherever a caution symbol appears, we can modify the lines. In Eclipse, importing and exporting projects is quick and simple. My development has benefited greatly from Eclipse's integration with Git and other version control tools. It has a tonne of plugins, which will enable us to personalize the application and do a lot of exploring.

The AI-based auto-completion system has to be improved because it currently completes codes quite slowly. Its size and resource requirements may cause older PCs to perform more slowly. The time it takes to open and run the code can be extremely long.

The versatility as a Java IDE and WSO2 Integration Studio make that it is actually quite handy for both Java and Synapse Development.

Eclipse is a powerful IDE that has a large number of functions and a multitude of views and settings. The Eclipse framework is also used in other products like dbeaver, Apache DS and therefor familiar to people with those tools. It is an extensible product with add-ons like Integration Studio makes it a versatile tool.

Eclipse has a large number of perspectives, views and so on. This makes it a bit hard to navigate between all the options. The stability sometimes also has issues. Especially when you have a large number of open windows. The options are not always directly clear as to what each option will do (e.g. a number of options have the same truncated name like maven build )

I had been in teams which use Eclipse IDE for backend development of the projects, integrating with Git, pushing the code, triggering pipelines and for debugging issues. It has been a great experience to load projects, create sub projects even with modern frameworks but as the world evolves, flavours like spring toolsuite have taken over for framework specific projects

For any mid-large tier company / individuals who start their development journey, eclipse is the best fit out there to help them onboard, pamper and make them learn. From basics to advanced users, eclipse is definitely a right choice for backend development . Also the responses, notifications eclipse gives are very contextual and always developer focussed. For test automation framework projects as well, eclipse does a great job

Lack of innovation since 2 releases - almost every feature being rolled out is just minor enhancement and that is one of the reason for many to adpot IntelliJ as the choice for IDE. Also eclipse start up time, loading projects from cache has not been improved since many years and it is definitely a concern for the modern systems

Extensibility: Eclipse's core strength lies in its extensibility. The IDE is built on a modular architecture, allowing developers to add functionality through a vast array of plugins. This extensibility makes Eclipse highly adaptable to different programming languages, frameworks, and project requirements.Language Support: Eclipse provides excellent support for a wide range of programming languages, including Java, C/C++, Python, JavaScript, PHP, and more. It offers features specific to each language, such as syntax highlighting, code completion, debugging, and refactoring, ensuring a productive coding experience across various development domains.

Resource Intensive: Eclipse is known to be resource-intensive, especially when working on larger projects. It can consume a significant amount of memory and processing power, which may impact the overall performance of the IDE and slow down the development process, particularly on less powerful machines.

Overall I like Eclipse and have had a positive experience. It is an inexpensive option that performs at a high level.

What I like most about the Eclipse IDE is the different profiles depending on the type of development being done. If you're using java, that's the profile is pretty much standard. If you're using Spring you can launch your server directly within the IDE. In addition there are plenty of add-on's that can be downloaded from the market place.

What I liked least is the lack of shortcuts out of the box. I've used other IDE's like InteliJ and the added shortcuts make things way more efficient; nonetheless, Intellij can be rather expensive when compared to an open sourced option like Eclipse. The fact that you can get Eclipse IDE without a monthly subscription makes the lack of shortcuts seem like a frivolous complaint.

While I change IDE every now and then, with its vast plugin support, Eclipse IDE remained with me for a long time. Amazing online community is one of the things you won't miss this one.

As it is open source, it comes with its own set of benefits like huge number of plugins, third party support and integrated management. Faster than many IDE's I have used. Supports multiple programming languages. Customize appearance like themes, light mode, dark mode etc. Debugging and auto format

I learnt Java in this IDE, there is nothing much to complain about when your language is Java but when you use it for other languages you might not have similar experience. For example lack of support for CMAKE. It could be optimized further to run large projects without crashing.

This has best UI nearly you can utilize it as ide for java, c/c++, python as due to its flexible activity. Useful for project developement and the executives, it have an incredible troubleshooting limit which measure the code quick..

Nothing to detest except for it not help web improvement and it takes more memory area.

It is a very complete IDE, with great documentation and you can find complete forums with solutions to almost any type of problem that you can find with the IDE, it also has a large library by the community in which you can any type of library that you They could be useful in your projects, whether personal or work.

One of the things I like about this IDE is its wide range of documentation and community support, one can always find some help in a forum about the IDE. A very complete IDE that allows you to carry out your projects easily and quickly, allowing you to export projects easily. Its installation and configuration is really simple, it does not require a great effort to configure it and in a matter of minutes you will have a tool ready to work.

As well as giving you a wide range of options and configurations, it gives you a certain complexity, since when looking for some necessary option for IDE configurations it can take a while.

I am using eclipse for mostly Java development for my APIs in Springboot as well as for Spring Web application as well. Intellisense feature of this IDE is super awesome and it makes the development life so much easier. Marketplace contains many extensions like SonarLint, Maven etc.

One of the drawback for this software is linking this with GIT repos and resolving merge conflicts etc is very difficult or sometimes not possible. Here STS(JavaBeans) is better if we need this feature

This is definitely the best free IDE that you can get, but it does not come near any other commercial products like IntelliJ IDEA. I would actually recommend working with community version of IDEA rather than Eclipse. Even if you are a learning developer start with free trial of IntelliJ instead. You won’t have to learn new controls when you eventually switch to IDEA in your first paid job.

Versatile tool that supports many languages. It is free and a lot of plugins are free as well, which makes it a powerful IDE for also some serious work. It is open-source, so there are many great projects based on Eclipse. From the usage point of view it is fine, but it does not have the UX of a commercial product.

I had a lot of issues with stability and various bugs which caused me days to find out. They were highly specific, but still it is something that hindered me a lot. Free plugins are of various quality and usually will make the stability issues worse.

It went from a simple learning tool to the ultimate development tool. How not to like something with so much quality and no cost? In addition to a strongly active community.

There is no way to separate Eclipse from Java development. I learned how to use it in 2000, and I still use it. Packed with tools and options, it's definitely the best choice.

It's relatively heavy software, but it's also evolved like the hardware that uses it, so if you want results, you're going to use it anyway.

"Its an easy to use IDE for java development. Im using it for 3+ years to automate web application with selenium. Its interface i like the most ,easy to add plugins and support available for it on google makes it best."

Sometimes in older version if eclipse it becomes hard to find suitable plugin supported by it, we have to spend good amount of time for trial and error.

I needed a platform that easily debugs and reports the error in the program along with the cause of the error and also suggests solutions with experience in compiling the program solved by Eclipse.

It is a free software, the features I have seen are quick code fix and auto-suggestion where it can identify grammar error while writing code and give warning option and quick fixes for error free code.

Sometimes internet speed is required if you are implementing a dependency or installing a new plugin. Needs some updating.

User friendly and easy to create new projects for micro services. Great tool for beginners.

Less features with third party plugins and need more customer support.

Simple UI, Free of Cost, supports and integrates with many CICD tools, Supports more plugins. Assist in compilation and debugging of code. Helps in formatting code. Doesn't take much CPU unlike other IDEs

Basic UI, Execution is slower, Lack of themes, Slow to start and Support of languages other than Java is not so great