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Addicted to Eclipse

As much as I hate to admit it, I'm addicted to Eclipse. I'm hooked on the auto-import and auto-fix stuff that automatically imports the classes I need, adds missing methods needed to implement interfaces, and declares missing variables, fields, and even classes. And I'm hooked on the CVS client that gives me a clear view of every single file I have modified in my workspace, every incoming change, and makes it easy to override-and-commit or override-and-update. Netbeans 4.0 has come a long, long way from the old 3.X series and Creator is just awesome for JSF, but 4.0 is still not good enough to pull me away from Eclipse. There, I said it.

Unfortunately, Eclipse for Solaris/X86 is linked to Motif which makes it nearly unusable so I end up using Netbeans for most of they day, only switching to Eclipse when I need to synchronize with CVS. I actually blew a Saturday afternoon trying to get Eclipse 3.1 to build on Solaris/X86 linked to GTK. I failed, but only because I ran out of time.

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I agree with you 100%. I have been using eclipse since 2.1 and many of my team members are addicted to this awesome IDE to develop Java based application. We had also used the Lomboz Plugin in to Develop JSP/Servlet based applications with it. Havent yet use the WTP for Eclipse, but i assume that this is going to be as helpfull as was Lomboz. Hats off to the Eclipse Development Team. :)

Posted by Muhammad Mansoor on December 29, 2004 at 03:05 AM EST #

I only know of one cure for Eclipse addiction. IDEA. It cured mine.

Posted by 24.27.218.208 on December 29, 2004 at 12:18 PM EST #

I've tried IDEA several times and it just didn't "click" for me, plus the CVS client was not as featureful as the one in Eclipse.

Posted by Dave Johnson on December 29, 2004 at 12:40 PM EST #

Eclipse is awesome!

Posted by jeff on January 03, 2005 at 04:03 PM EST #

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