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Eclipse Luna vs NetBeans comparison

 

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Review summaries and opinions

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Categories and Ranking

Eclipse Luna
Ranking in IDE
15th
Average Rating
8.6
Number of Reviews
3
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
NetBeans
Ranking in IDE
9th
Average Rating
8.2
Number of Reviews
8
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
 

Mindshare comparison

As of March 2025, in the IDE category, the mindshare of Eclipse Luna is 0.7%, down from 1.3% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of NetBeans is 4.2%, up from 2.2% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
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Featured Reviews

RahulJain7 - PeerSpot reviewer
Good plugins and helpful templates with a useful auto-code suggestion feature
Eclipse's auto-code suggestion feature makes programming very easy and fast. Thanks to Eclipse, we can deliver fast and well-compiled code as it compiles the code on every hit which stops developers from writing bad code instantly. On top of this, we can integrate other software like Tomcat, and MySQL in Eclipse very easily which makes development even faster. Now, we can deploy our Java app directly into Tomcat from Eclipse itself which saves a lot of time in development. The same thing is true in MySQL. we can see data in Eclipse itself using SQL queries. There's no need to install a query browser application.
it_user725928 - PeerSpot reviewer
Any slowness is detected by the tool and can be reported
Free, quality, easy usage Large scale of projects, templates, and coding support. NetBeans Platform can be freely used as a desktop application base. All the functionality is prepared for me. I make only the business modules It has improved organizational productivity. Background scanning of…

Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Pros

"It is very extensible and uses resources optimally."
"It works like a one-stop shop for all of our application development requirements."
"Eclipse's auto-code suggestion feature makes programming very easy and fast."
"C++ 11 support (for a long time)"
"It is easy to deploy, manage servers, and ORMS resources."
"One of the most important features is that Apache Maven supports it."
"When you have to develop in Java, this IDE is ideal because it has many plugins that make your life easier... For example, when working with Hibernate or with JPA, creating entities is very easy through a graphical interface."
"It comes out of package fully-loaded with a lot of great features for web development."
"The learning curve is easy and fast because the interface is simple and intuitive, enabling us to easily train developers who are not expert in metrics."
"Large scale of projects, templates, and coding support."
"Server Support"
 

Cons

"Eclipse can sometimes be a plugin nightmare. Various plugins require different versions of the same plugin running for different reasons."
"I would like to see it extend native support for functional languages like Scala."
"The development of the product needs improvement."
"One of main areas that the tool can improve is performance."
"Debugging: Watches, Evaluate Expression, and data inspection are limited."
"Background scanning of sources on demand, disallowed by Options (processor usage, build cannot be deleted by the old version build)."
"The debugging mechanize could be improved compared to IntelliJ, for example."
"t is a very heavy load on the computer, especially when you compare with Sublime Text Limited plugins and themes."
"I would like there to be better integration with Git, as there are IDEs such as Eclipse that offer this integration in a much more elegant way than NetBeans."
"There are always rooms for improvement for any product. The good thing with NetBeans is that since it is Open Source, you can just go ahead and contribute whatever you want to change yourself."
 

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"It is an open source and free tool, with no changes, and the licensing allows me even to change source code, if I need."
"I am sad that CLion is not free. Currently, it has no support for Linux makefiles, only cmake, and this is a big mess."
"NetBeans is free and open source."
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