The Best IDEs for Java Development: A Comparative Analysis

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IntelliJ IDEA Landing Page

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IntelliJ IDEA

Capable and Ergonomic IDE for JVM

Intelligent Coding Assistance: What sets IntelliJ IDEA apart is its intelligent coding assistance. It seems to understand your code, predict your needs, and assist you with a range of development tasks from start to finish. By virtually mapping your Java projects, it can detect errors, suggest code variants, conduct refactoring, and more. It’s like having a coding assistant!

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Eclipse Landing Page

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Eclipse

Eclipse is an open source community, whose projects are focused on building an open development platform comprised of extensible frameworks, tools and runtimes for building, deploying and managing software across the lifecycle.

Extensive Plugin System: Eclipse offers an extensive plugin system that allows developers to customize their own features. It supports more than 100 programming languages, including Groovy, JavaScript, C++, and Python.

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Netbeans Landing Page
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Netbeans

NetBeans IDE 7.0. Develop desktop, mobile and web applications with Java, PHP, C/C++ and more. Runs on Windows, Linux, Mac OS X and Solaris. NetBeans IDE is open-source and free.
Pricing:
- Open Source
User Satisfaction: With a user rating of 4.1 out of 5 and user satisfaction of 82%, NetBeans offers a solid development experience.

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Visual Studio Code Landing Page
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Visual Studio Code

Build and debug modern web and cloud applications, by Microsoft
Pricing:
- Open Source
Overview: Although not a traditional IDE, VS Code has gained popularity as a lightweight code editor.

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