--- description: Review of Eclipse IDE Software: system overview, features, price and cost information. Get free demos and compare to similar programs. image: https://gdm-localsites-assets-gfprod.imgix.net/images/software_advice/og_logo-55146305bbe7b450bea05c18e9be9c9a.png title: Eclipse IDE | Reviews, Pricing & Demos - SoftwareAdvice AU --- Breadcrumb: [Home](/) > [App Development Software](/directory/4499/app-development/software) > [Eclipse IDE](/software/207988/eclipse-ide) # Eclipse IDE Canonical: https://www.softwareadvice.com.au/software/207988/eclipse-ide Page: 1 / 9\ Next: [Next page](https://www.softwareadvice.com.au/software/207988/eclipse-ide?page=2) > Eclipse is a free open-source integrated development environment that allows users to create Java-based applications. Eclipse IDE is composed of plug-ins and be customized using third-party plug-ins. With its extensible plug-in framework, Eclipse can support other programming languages such as Fortran, Haskell, C, C++, JavaScript, Lua, PHP, Python, R, Ruby, Scala, and more. > > Verdict: Rated **4.3/5** by 205 users. Top-rated for **Likelihood to recommend**. ----- ## Quick Stats & Ratings | Metric | Rating | Detail | | **Overall** | **4.3/5** | 205 Reviews | | Ease of Use | 4.1/5 | Based on overall reviews | | Customer Support | 3.8/5 | Based on overall reviews | | Value for Money | 4.5/5 | Based on overall reviews | | Features | 4.3/5 | Based on overall reviews | | Recommendation percentage | 80% | (8/10 Likelihood to recommend) | ## About the vendor - **Company**: Eclipse Foundation ## Commercial Context - **Starting Price**: CAD 0.00 - **Pricing model**: (Free version available) - **Pricing Details**: Eclipse IDE is free and open source. - **Target Audience**: Self Employed, 2–10, 11–50, 51–200, 201–500, 501–1,000, 1,001–5,000, 5,001–10,000, 10,000+ - **Deployment & Platforms**: Cloud, SaaS, Web-based - **Supported Languages**: English - **Available Countries**: Belgium, Canada ## Features - API - Code Development - Code Editing - Collaboration Tools - Data Modeling - Debugging - Deployment Management - For Developers - Graphical User Interface - Integrated Development Environment - Multiple Programming Languages Supported - Software Development - Version Control - Web App Development - Web/Mobile App Development ## Support Options - FAQs/Forum ## Category - [App Development Software](https://www.softwareadvice.com.au/directory/4499/app-development/software) ## Related Categories - [App Development Software](https://www.softwareadvice.com.au/directory/4499/app-development/software) - [Integrated Development Environment Software](https://www.softwareadvice.com.au/directory/4413/ide/software) ## Alternatives 1. 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The plugins we developed helped a lot our dev teams community (about +1000 developers), bringing more efficiency and fun to the coding / testing / debugging activities. > > **Cons**: If your application is too big, building it can cause the interface to hang, so, better to take coffee, a walk, to give time to Eclipse finish the process. > > Consolidating the development environment using Eclipse for huge teams, spread all around the globe, helped to avoid loosing time to support more than on IDE and to maintain specific configurations which may be needed. We exported Eclipse configurations and even had a small team to certificate and manage internal plugins distributions, ensuring that the development work machinery was not stopped due to environment issues. ----- ### "Experience with Eclipse IDE" — 4.0/5 > **Carlos Hugo Martin** | *10 April 2022* | Information Technology & Services | Recommendation rating: 8.0/10 > > **Pros**: 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. > > **Cons**: 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. > > The IDE was used for the development of applications and extensions of monitoring tools. In addition to the implementation of devops flows. ----- ### "eclipse ide review worth it or not" — 3.0/5 > **bruno** | *19 December 2024* | Research | Recommendation rating: 6.0/10 > > **Pros**: a very good ide and it is free, it offer multiple language support. Another important point is the extensive plugin ecosystem (coding, database, framework...) As an old IDE you can find a wide range of forum, helps, documentation > > **Cons**: when you computer is not powerful enough you can expect some latency as eclipse is quite heavy impect on the system's ressources. Quite difficult for new commers as there are so much possibilities for configuration > > Around 10 years of usage The experience with Eclipse IDE is generally functional it is a powerful tool for software development, especially in Java. But it is overwhelming for beginners ----- ### "Review For Eclipse IDE" — 4.0/5 > **Ishaan** | *20 November 2022* | Computer Software | Recommendation rating: 9.0/10 > > **Pros**: The fact that the GUI is perfectly laid out for a JAVA developer makes this application highly accessible for people who are either beginners or advanced in coding in JAVA. > > **Cons**: The fact that this app doesn't allow many customizations in terms of Graphical themes or icon themes makes this app less competitive in comparison to its competitors. > > My overall experience suggests that this is the perfect IDE for coding in JAVA, due to the fact that coding in this app is seamless and that the options available to the user while coding are not intimidating in comparison to some heavy-weight IDEs. ----- ### "Best IDE for Web Development" — 5.0/5 > **Verified Reviewer** | *19 May 2022* | Biotechnology | Recommendation rating: 10.0/10 > > **Pros**: 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. > > **Cons**: The collaboration with other tools is a bit of research that needs to be done in order to use it correctly > > Its great to use and lot better than most of the IDE's which are used for similar purpose ----- Page: 1 / 9\ Next: [Next page](https://www.softwareadvice.com.au/software/207988/eclipse-ide?page=2) ## Links - [View on SoftwareAdvice](https://www.softwareadvice.com.au/software/207988/eclipse-ide) ## This page is available in the following languages | Locale | URL | | en | | | en-AU | | | en-GB | | | en-IE | | | en-NZ | | ----- ## Structured Data