About Eclipse
Eclipse is a complex integrated development environment (IDE) that is perfect for people who do a lot of coding on various different platforms and with different languages. It is structured as plug-ins so if you need to edit something, you just find the appropriate plug-in and go. If you are creating complex web applications, Eclipse has a lot of features to help make your application easier to build. There are Java, JavaScript, and PHP plugins, as well as a plugin for mobile developers. With Eclipse you can convert your web applications into mobile applications and even sell them on app stores with the correct plugins. Eclipse is not a good program for people who just want to build web pages. It is very complicated and hard to use for that purpose.
Target Market(s): Professional Web Developers
Review last updated: October 27, 2011.
Eclipse Latest Review
Eclipse Version: 3.7.1
Score: 166
Percent: 49%
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Eclipse Technical Details
Operating System(s): Windows Macintosh Linux or UNIX
Eclipse Features
- Text editor
- XML validator
- Wireless scripts, functions, or links
- Wireless scripts, functions, or links
- Save pages as HTML with DTD
- Write XHTML documents
- Color coding
- Tag completion
- FTP or Site manager
- FTPs or Secure FTP
- Search and replace
- Extended search and replace (across multiple documents)
- Edit multiple files/tabbed file editing
- Special character tools
- Can edit JavaScript
- Additional CSS assistance
- Can edit PHP, ASP, or JSP
- Edit XML and/or RSS
- Customizable or extendable
- Upgrade discounts or freeware
- No limits on free or trial version
- No subscription fee required
What’s Missing from Eclipse
- WYSIWYG editor
- HTML validator
- Accessibility validator
- CSS validator
- Page preview
- Alternate browser or OS preview
- Mobile device preview
- Create mobile web applications
- Package mobile apps for delivery on app stores
- Write HTML 5 documents
- Edit images
- Connects to graphics software
- Multimedia functions
- Assistance with adding videos to websites
- Ability to add video and audio using HTML5 with fallback options
- Save Adobe AIR files
- Save files as PDF
- Link checker
- Helps with Ajax JSON, or jQuery pages
- Can edit CSS
- CSS 3 properties and selectors
- CSS3 media queries tools built-in
- Dynamic page rendering and editing with server-side programming languages (PHP, JSP, ASP, CFM, etc.)
- Database connectivity
- Google sitemaps
- Spell checking
- Save snippets of code
- Writes to blogs
- Free templates
- Free scripts
- Form wizard
- Photo gallery builder
- Ecommerce tools
- SEO assistance built-in
- Captcha support or other methods of protecting forms
- Version control
- Support for teams editing the site (beyond version control)
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