Top 10 Java IDE You Must Know In 2020
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Published: 2020-06-16 07:10:54

The first public implementation of Java was in 1995. It is one of the most popular programming languages and is widely used to develop robust and secure desktop applications, mobile apps, web apps, and enterprise apps.

Every java programmer needs a programming editor or IDE that can help with writing Java and class libraries and frameworks. It is important to decide the best IDE and it depends on your role in the organization, process used by the development team, and your skill level as a programmer. Generally, there are three IDEs that you can use for server-side Java development- intelliJ IDEA, Eclipse and NetBeans. Before proceeding towards IDEs and its features, let us discuss the details of IDEs.

**What Is An IDE?**
IDE is an abbreviation of Integrated Development Environment. It is an application designed to help developers in building software applications with an environment combined with all the required tools. The selection of a good IDE depends on factors like- needs of the OS, language support, and also a cost of particular IDE etc. Let us see the advantages of using an IDE.

**Advantages Of IDE-**
*1. Project Management-*
Most of the IDEs have documentation tools that allow developers to write comments in different areas and automate the entry of comments.

*2. Less Time And Effort-*
The main purpose of IDE is to ease and fasten the development process. To organize resources, prevent mistakes, and provide shortcuts, there are various tools and also features are available. 

*3. Enforce Project Or Company Standards-*
Just by working in the same development environment, some of the software developers will bond to a standard way of getting things done. Then standards can be enforced if an IDE offers predefined templates or if the code libraries are shared between various colleagues/groups working on the same project.

**Top 10 Popular Java IDE-**
*1. Eclipse-*
This is one of the popular Java IDE and was mostly written in Java. But it can be used to develop applications in other programming languages apart from Java using plug-ins. Eclipse is an open-source and a freely distributed IDE available for enterprise Web Development. It is meant to be a robust, full-featured and also a commercial-quality platform for developing modern web applications.

Features of Eclipse:

1. Helps java developers to accelerate the application development, Eclipse flaunts powerful tools for charting, modeling, reporting and also testing.
2. It helps you with code refactoring, editing with prompt validation, incremental compilation, cross-referencing, code suggestions.
3. Excellent usability and performance.
4. Support for Windows/Linux/Mac OS X.
5. Integrated static code analysis.
6. Intelligent code completion and provides quick fixes.
7. The plugin development environment is available for programmers to create specific functionalities in their applications.
8. It can also be used to create various mathematical documents with LaTeX using the TeXlipse plug-in as well as packages for Mathematica software.

2. IntelliJ IDEA-

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