Article:		A Look at the Eclipse IDE
Subject:		Eclipse = half IDEA for free
Date:		2003-11-16 19:18:11
From:		anonymous2
Response to: Eclipse = half IDEA for free
"And most of all I cannot stand an IDE whose behaviour gets unpredictable when the number of classes is greater than 100." What are you talking about. We have assumed maintenance of an admittedly bloated project that has over two thousand classes, and we are using WSAD (which is basically Eclipse++). There are no problems with the IDE handling the class size that I can discern.

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• Eclipse = half IDEA for free
  2003-11-19 01:56:15  anonymous2 [View]
  
  
  I'm currently using Eclipse on a project with over 400 classes and over 150 JSPs and there's nothing unpredictable about it.
  
  Once in a while writing a file to disk takes longer than normal, but that's due to the fileserver and not Eclipse (it happens also when using other applications).
  
  

• Eclipse = half IDEA for free
  2003-11-17 16:45:27  anonymous2 [View]
  
  
  My experience is using Eclipse 3.0 M4 on Mac OS X on a project using 100 classes split in 4 different source directories within a complex, not modifiable, directory structure with lots of non-java files.
  With automatic compilation on, which is something that, if turned off, makes Eclipse almost useless to me, the task list updates sometimes stop, the code completion stops working or it takes too much time. Most of all there is no half-decent XML/JSP editor and because of SWT it's not possible to integrate something working, like for example the jEdit plugins, within Eclipse in a useful way.
  I think Eclipse would be much better on Swing and with a less windows-like pre-XP GUI so cluttered with icons.
  And way too many times the workbench configuration file gets corrupted...
• Eclipse = half IDEA for free
  2004-01-01 15:05:50  anonymous2 [View]
  
  
  FWIW, I'm using 3M6 on a Dual 2GHz G5 and it the performance is very crisp. I am doing plugin development and I can push CTRL-F11 and be inside a new running Eclipse instance in 5s, which seems pretty good to me!