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Two-Thirds of Developers Now Use Eclipse


BZ Research study finds developers are using Eclipse for Java, Web development

By Alan Zeichick
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January 15, 2007 —  (Page 1 of 3)
Two-thirds of enterprise software developers—66.3 percent—use Eclipse. That’s according to the most recent Eclipse Adoption Study, conducted by BZ Research in November 2006. The study has an accuracy of 2 percentage points.

Eclipse penetration has been increasing slowly but surely, since BZ Research (a division of BZ Media, publisher of SD Times) began studying Eclipse adoption. In the first Eclipse study, in September 2004, usage was 53.9 percent, and it jumped to 62.5 percent by the second study, in November 2005.

Why do developers use Eclipse? The top reason, chosen by 64.7 percent of respondents, was that it’s a low-cost solution. Next was that Eclipse is an open-source solution (61.5 percent), that there’s a wide array of plug-ins available (60.4 percent), it’s extensible (47.6 percent), it’s easy to learn and use (40.3 percent), and it’s cross-platform (37.4 percent). Those answers closely match the answers given to the same question in the 2005 study.

“We are using Eclipse because it is free, it has a lot of helpful plug-ins and a great community and foundation supporting it,” said Aldo Nievas, CEO of Satio Software Solutions. “It’s free, flexible and gives us great, powerful tools to do things like refactoring, monitor for flaws in code, and provide point-of use API documentation and source browsing for our own libraries as well as the third-party libraries we use,” added Jim Elliott, a senior software engineer with Berbee Information Networks.

But not everyone is a fan: “We have tested Eclipse. We found the core functionality did not meet our needs. Plug-ins are available, but at a significant cost when you find quality, suitable ones. Sun Java Studio Enterprise 8 supplied better, cleaner, out-of-the-box functionality and was more cost effective once Sun reduced the cost to 0,” said Daniel Utz, a senior developer with High Sierra Sport.

“The organization is primarily a Microsoft Development house so we use .NET Framework-based development tools. Not currently looking at cross-platform development but if we do, we will be looking at Sun Solaris and best of breed tools for that platform,” commented Darryl Jewett, president of Converging Solutions.




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