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  A Look at the Eclipse IDE
Subject:   Eclipse = half IDEA for free
Date:   2003-11-17 16:45:27
From:   anonymous2
Response to: Eclipse = half IDEA for free

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...
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  • Eclipse = half IDEA for free
    2004-01-01 15:05:50  anonymous2 [Reply | 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!