Comments on: Using Eclipse for Web Development

By: kontur

kontur — Fri, 01 Jul 2011 07:22:41 +0000

Haha, great write up!
From a designer's point of view the whole presentation Eclipse gives of itself is exactly as described – confusing, technical, overdetailed, obscure. This blog entry was #1 hit for "using eclipse for web development" – and I searched after having experience resembling yours in all too many ways.

By: edelyn cabalhin

edelyn cabalhin — Tue, 15 Mar 2011 22:39:55 +0000

Nice for an open source application. I tried using it with linux server, it's quite impressive at least you will save of your time for it immediately provide you that necessary informatin you're looking for.

By: Eclipse Numbnut

Eclipse Numbnut — Wed, 23 Feb 2011 02:41:33 +0000

You're right Eclipse is for Numbnuts…. Those guys at Google and IBM really are stupid, using Eclipse to dominate the world….

By: Intelisystem

Intelisystem — Fri, 03 Dec 2010 04:54:49 +0000

Hi,
i found your blog through googling. your blog gives very good knowledge about importance of Eclipse for Web Development. This blog are very well for web developer.

Thank you,

By: Ricardo Graça

Ricardo Graça — Tue, 14 Sep 2010 19:06:00 +0000

I was interested in trying out eclipse, since it's a very popular IDE, but I got tired just reading your post. I guess I'll keep using more easy to use IDEs. I'm also glad to find that it's not just me that finds the whole eclipse website and program structure extremely confusing. What the hell are they thinking?

By: Thai

Thai — Tue, 17 Aug 2010 05:17:00 +0000

OMG – i was thinking of total frustration right before I landed on this page….im still frustrated I can't get things to install right…but i got a nice laugh though…thanks…

By: web development

web development — Fri, 18 Jun 2010 08:23:54 +0000

Thanks for the good and hardworking blog. I have noticed that on OS X dropping a file from, say, Finder onto the Studio dock icon will look like its launching another instance of Studio while opening the dropped file in the already open instance, but I don't think the second instance actually opens.

By: dcolumbus

dcolumbus — Fri, 14 May 2010 00:12:06 +0000

ROFL! This is the best article I've read in a while… I couldn't agree more. And thanks for helping me out. Have you had any luck installing support for jQuery?

By: Boatzart

Boatzart — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 23:45:51 +0000

Yikes, I just downloaded eclipse on my mac to check it out for web developement. I spent 20 minutes futzing around with my Java settings trying to figure out why the application wouldn't run when I double clicked on it. Turns out eclipse/Eclipse.app/Contents/MacOS/eclipse didn't actually have execute permissions set. By developers, for developers.

By: Chris

Chris — Tue, 22 Dec 2009 17:31:36 +0000

I had similar problems with Ganymede, having downloaded the basic Java SDK package, and then tried to add C++, PHP etc. Couldn't figure it out, and with nothing much to lose, downloaded the newest release, Galileo – no problems. It seems to have had a major sort out and the plugin configuration is much more intuitive. Given that it's over a year since your post, you have probably found that already!

By: GreenMatt

GreenMatt — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 21:00:11 +0000

I have had similar struggles a couple times before and have avoided Eclipse as a result. I'm going through it again, as I'm currently (and temporarily) working in an environment where I don't have other options. Also, I'm looking for new work and Java keeps coming up, so I'm trying to learn Eclipse for that.

By: Craig

Craig — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 13:40:28 +0000

Wahoo. I just got done leaving a message over on Eclipse Community Forums / newcomer about THIS VERY SAME CONFUSION I'm having with the Eclipse IDE.

thank you very much for this revealing expose.

I'll be going back over this and the added comments to glean what direction to take.. sticking with Eclipse or finding an alternative. The consensus seems to be that there is a light at the end of the tunnel with Eclipse.. I'm willing to grope a little longer after reading these comments

By: Ann R.

Ann R. — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 22:47:07 +0000

Love the post. I am scouring the internet to see if Eclipse is worth the headache. Glad to see I'm not the only one feeling this. I'm still debating on whether I should proceed but alas I have the big payoff in mind. Please post an update of your progress with Eclipse (or the lack thereof). Would love to hear if it's everything it's cracked up to be.

By: Joe Wright

Joe Wright — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 14:12:57 +0000

I hugely enjoyed reading your post. It really is a crazy world in the Eclipse plugin ecosystem.

Having tackled the same problem at work recently I stumbled across a project which adds a bit of polish to the install process: poweredbypulse.com

By: Riley

Riley — Thu, 14 May 2009 10:17:08 +0000

Nice post, I'm glad to see other people think installing Eclipse for development is stupidly and unnecessarily difficult. It reminds me of every IBM product I worked with – like something designed by and for nerdy developers only, with lots of totally ridiculous steps that someone who knew what they were doing could turn into something sensible with a bit of effort put into polish.

By: LyhjeHylje

LyhjeHylje — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 08:24:34 +0000

I was wrestling with exactly the same problem, thanks for pointing out the "enable updates" -part.

By: Tim Hoelscher

Tim Hoelscher — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 17:35:08 +0000

This post made me laugh – it is so true. I actually like Eclipse now that I have it configured the way I like, but getting there was as rough and frustrating as you describe. I can't imagine how many potential users they are alienating with their absurd distribution and update structure. I had heard from a lot of people whose opinions I respected that Eclipse was a great environment, and that compelled me to spend hours getting it set up. I question how many people are willing to do that.

By: Dilantha

Dilantha — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 03:38:44 +0000

Easy Eclipse http://www.easyeclipse.org/site/home/ has a bundle for PHP development

By: AppBeacon

AppBeacon — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 15:40:42 +0000

@BillSaysThis : Thanks for the response. I'll wait and see what 3.4 looks like.

By: BillSaysThis

BillSaysThis — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 15:31:27 +0000

Studio has FTP in the community edition and SFTP in the Pro edition–the download includes a 30 day trial of the Pro edition features–so you could just use Studio for transport of the files.

Further, I have noticed that on OS X dropping a file from, say, Finder onto the Studio dock icon will look like its launching another instance of Studio while opening the dropped file in the already open instance, but I don't think the second instance actually opens.

Also, we are moving Studio to Eclipse 3.4 for v1.3 and that should improve a number of the performance aspects. Even though 1.2 just released a few weeks back, 1.3 is not far off, though I'd rather not be more specific just yet.