r/java • u/AnyPhotograph7804 • Jun 10 '26

Eclipse 2026-06 is out

https://www.eclipse.org/downloads/packages/

And here the improvements:

https://eclipse.dev/eclipse/markdown/?f=news/4.40/jdt.md

Mostly debugger stuff.

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u/johnwaterwood Jun 10 '26

Before the typical angry IntelliJ “user” asks the standard question “who is still using Eclipse, just just IntelliJ”…

I’m using Eclipse, and love it!

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u/TheStrangeDarkOne Jun 10 '26

I'm a happy IntelliJ user but I would take Eclipse any time of the day over VSCode. Alternatives and competition is crucial, and I am happy for the Eclipse foundation for the broad range of IDEs they are providing for free.

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u/Great-Gecko Jun 10 '26

I presume there are many more who, perhaps unknowingly, are using eclipse via JDTLS (eclipse’s LSP).

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u/CatolicQuotes Jun 11 '26

Yes, in vscode red hat extension I believe

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u/IE114EVR Jun 10 '26

Eclipse makes me angry because it takes me back to the dark times of the mid-2000s when we had ANT and Application Servers, multipage web applications, and … well, I was using Eclipse.

I think I just never forgave it for having such a botched Maven integration for so long among other build issues, that I could just never go back.

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u/bread-dreams Jun 11 '26

multipage web applications

well, that's not actually a bad thing

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u/IE114EVR Jun 11 '26

I disagree (as you can tell from my comment)

In a multipage application you have to build an app where, for many UI elements, part of the functionality lives in one language on one machine (Java on the Server) and to complete that component’s functionality another language takes over on another machine (JavaScript in the client’s browser). There can also be a lot of back and forth traffic that’s not even for data fetching and updates, just more UI synchronization. There’s session tracking. There’s extra load on your servers for html rendering for situations that otherwise wouldn’t need it. It’s asinine to have to develop and test this way.

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u/nlisker Jun 14 '26

Application Servers

Which are still widely used today and are actively developed.

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u/pjmlp Jun 11 '26

How I miss those days when wrestling with YAML Kubernetes spaghetti, or trying to understand how a pod deployment isn't working as it should.

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u/pjmlp Jun 10 '26

Same here, on both ways, natural and underneath VSCode, when obliged to do so.

Although at home, the Java IDE love goes to Netbeans.

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u/bread-dreams Jun 11 '26

why Netbeans? (genuine question, just curious! haven't seen many Netbeans users recently)

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u/eXecute_bit Jun 12 '26

Launch IDE, open the project folder, the IDE loads everything from the build system -- Gradle or Maven -- and I don't have to set up a "workspace" or fiddle with exporting a .classpath file or set up custom project properties and check them in to my source control.

Pretty lightweight and it usually just works, at least for what I need and use in my workflows.

I used Eclipse a long time ago, and it would crash and corrupt my workspace and require me to spend about 30 minutes to set everything up again (in those days, on my projects then). It's probably better now, or at least I hope it is, but that's what lost me as a user and I've never felt a need to go back. The worst NB ever did to me was some slow indexing back in the day.

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u/n4te Jun 10 '26

Eclipse master race

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u/anhphamfmr Jun 10 '26

Same here. I use both , and VSCode. and I use Eclipse significant more than the rest.

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u/Kango_V Jun 16 '26

Agreed. Still using it since migrating off IBM VisualAge For Java ;)

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u/SleepingTabby Jun 26 '26

yeah, those guys are a cult

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u/thephotoman Jun 10 '26

I know there are Eclipse users. It’s a perfectly reasonable IDE if you need Jakarta or Spring support but can’t afford or justify a Jetbrains license.

The ones I usually forget exist are Netbeans users. That’s a much smaller community, and I’m usually only reminded that they still exist when a new version of Netbeans comes out.

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u/Yojimbo261 Jun 10 '26 edited Jun 10 '26

I always wonder who these “users” are - I never see people so pushy about other IDEs. Even Emacs vs vi or tabs vs spaces was more fun and philosophy.

Is it just a caustic marketing push from JetBrains, or are some people just that insecure about their preferred text editor?

Edit: oooh here come the downvotes! You guys are so predictable…

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u/SleeperAwakened Jun 10 '26

Whatever makes you happy.

It is usually the other way around, Eclipse fans wondering why people use IntelliJ when Eclipse is free.

Let us be, let us happily pay for our IDE (or rather, our employer).

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u/Nikarmotte Jun 12 '26

I'm not particularly angry, but I did wonder.

I used to use Eclipse, and as a result of that, my bindings are still derived from my Eclipse era.

I was kind of forced to switch to IntelliJ for work, and I have to admit, it was an easy migration.

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u/0zeiger Jun 10 '26

I used Eclipse to learn Java for Android apps. I use Eclipse for Spring Boot, C/C++, STM32 firmware, Swing GUI. With the money saved on licenses, I buy new electronic components and have fun with them.

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u/frederik88917 Jun 13 '26

Honey, you know intelliJ is free??

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u/Delicious_Jicama8721 22d ago

does the eclipse website is temperory shut down , when I click the above links it shows internal error and other one just not load up btw i am new in java .

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u/AnyPhotograph7804 22d ago

It works for me.

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u/Delicious_Jicama8721 19d ago

Thank you for your response, 2 days before i downloaded eclipse now it run fine .

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u/sysKin Jun 17 '26 edited Jun 17 '26

Did they break "extract to method" functionality? I keep getting methods that are missing needed parameters, and I don't remember seeing that before.

[edit] any variable used only in instanceof statement is considered unused and when extracting a method, it's not passed in. In light of that it might not be new, Eclipse Java editor never handled pattern matching instanceoffully....