In general, Eclipse has a bigger community and thus a better chance to find a plugin for something you'd like to incorporate into your IDE. Then again, IDEA's plugins are better centralized into JetBrains' server so you don't need to surf the web and pounder on which of the 3 similar plugins you should choose...Originally posted by Warren Dew:
So what are the advantages of Eclipse? What are the advantages of IDEA?
I'm not really too familiar with IDEA, even though I have a personal license for it, but as far as I can see they're pretty much even with this kind of features. Others seem to like IDEA's user interface better so it might be just my being more knowledgeable with Eclipse than IDEA...Originally posted by Warren Dew:
What is the support for multiple file display like? I like to work with two or three separate files open at the same time beside each other, preferably in separate windows that can be independently minimized.
Originally posted by Warren Dew:
This client uses StarTeam. IDEA seems to have StarTeam integration. How good is it? Does Eclipse have StarTeam integration? This is not necessarily a big deal, just a question.
Eclipse has a toolkit for C++ development, similar to JDT, namedOriginally posted by Warren Dew:
How well does each deal with C++ code, especially MSC++? The project is a port from MSC++ to Java.
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Out of the box J2EE support - Eclipse has some nice plugins for this, but it's nice to just have it there. - Out of the box XML support
- CVS is easy
IDEA as a whole seems more intuitive than Eclipse because everything is already there. So I don't have to go install plugins and then set them up, maybe define some more key mappings for tasks, etc.
Originally posted by Gregg Bolinger:
Probably is. But the nice thing about IDEA is that I organize my project anyway I want. And IDEA conforms.![]()
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Originally posted by Gregg Bolinger:
Probably is. But the nice thing about IDEA is that I organize my project anyway I want. And IDEA conforms.![]()
Originally posted by Warren Dew:
I should have started this thread a month earlier!
One question: does either IDEA or Eclipse have a built in diff tool?
AFAIK, Eclipse has copied a lot features from IntelliJ
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Originally posted by John Todd:
AFAIK, Eclipse has copied a lot features from IntelliJ.
[...]eclipse doesn't provide support for XML
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Originally posted by Warren Dew:
One question: does either IDEA or Eclipse have a built in diff tool?
It sounds like an acusation (and I guess nobody will be able to proove it).
Originally posted by Alvin chew:
is IDEA support struts without any plugin ?
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At least I'm not aware of Eclipse having that possibility. Then again, I haven't felt a need to do such things with Eclipse (or IDEA).Originally posted by Alvin chew:
can eclipse or IDEA IDE do something like netbeans's mount filesystem ? or something similar ?
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Originally posted by Alvin chew:
can eclipse or IDEA IDE do something like netbeans's mount filesystem ? or something similar ?
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