Eclipse IDE

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 You also have to understand views and perspectives to make full use of it.It can also look outdated, especially when you compare it to IDEs with modern UIs such as Visual Studio Code which is one of the most popular ones.

My main use of Eclipse is in the field of Java desktop and server-side development on Linux and MAC. Eclipse provides basic IDE services for Java developers which augments code auto-completion (not very responsive/intelligent), debugging, unit testing, and profiling services that supports rapid application development on the desktop. I used Eclipse for developing Servlet, JSP, and EJB server-side code as well. Eclipse can be linked to the Apache Tomcat Servlet container to support the automatic deployment of Java server-side components on application servers. Moreover, desktop applications requiring RDBMS access can be easily developed in Eclipse by loading pre-imported JDBC drivers for popular databases such as MySQL and Oracle. Eclipse is a rich Java IDE but faithfully many other IDEs such as Apache NetBeans and IntelliJ IDEA are much more user-friendly and intelligent in terms of code autocompletion and debugging.

Eclipse is still lagging in terms of code autocompletion compared to other popular Java IDEs such as Apache NetBeans and IntelliJ IDEA. Many developers are migrating from Eclipse to those IDE due to this reason. Eclipse will surely stay as the legacy Java IDE especially that the Eclipse project is adding support for other programming environments other than Java, but the user base is definitely not as large as it was in the previous 10 years or so.

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

Eclipse significantly improves developer efficiency and productivity with Code Autocompletion and Snippets and Advanced Debugging Tools. It has a large global community as it is one of the platforms most chosen by users.

Significant consumption of system resources, including memory and CPU that can cause slowdowns and lags in the IDE.