Eclipse IDE

Better Than Ever

The Eclipse IDE delivers what you need to rapidly innovate

Support for Latest Java

Supports Java 23 and provides the necessary tooling for development.

Improved Java Development Tooling

Enhanced code folding for control statements, custom formatters for Java primitives and arrays, options to view exception stack traces directly in Variables view, and new cleanup and quick-fix options for Java 21 onwards.

Proven Extensibility

Features a huge variety of platform plugins that will ease the addition of new functionality.

Improved Platform

Enhanced light theme with a lightweight tab design and flat look, Edge replacing the now outdated Internet Explorer as the default browser, and an improved search filter in Import/Export as well as Show View to support category names.

Free and Open Source

Free and open source released under the terms of the Eclipse Public License 2.0.

Improved C/C++ Development Tooling

Eclipse CDT 12 introduces a new editing experience based on the language server protocol and integrating clangd, allowing CDT to support modern C++ standards. CDT 12 also includes significant improvements to the CMake integration.

Community-powered

More and more, the Eclipse IDE is powered by individual contributors around the world.

New and Noteworthy Get Started Documentation

Code Meets Community

59
Projects

107
Committers this quarter

119
Million lines of code

271
Contributors this quarter

Eclipse 2025-03 IDE Improvements

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The next Eclipse IDE release is coming in 2025-03

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Testimonials

Renesas have been using the Eclipse IDE platform and C/C++ Development Toolkit for many years as the basis of our own IDE product. We joined the Eclipse IDE Working Group because it is a great way to get proactively involved in the IDE and make contributions to keep the platform active and thriving.

The Eclipse IDE Working Group enables Renesas to more easily make a contribution when we have limited committers working on the projects that we use. Sponsoring the working group also gives us an avenue to further contribute and invest in these projects. The Eclipse IDE Working Group gives us insight into the future direction of the IDE and gives us the opportunity to influence the future plans which will affect our own commercial product and business interest.

- Mark Goodchild, at Renesas

Sigasi has been a proud user, contributor, and consumer of Eclipse IDE for over 15 years. We’ve built our legacy with the IDE through JDT’s great Java support, and have been building our flagship Sigasi Studio IDE on the Eclipse platform. The IDE - in combination with many other great Eclipse technologies such as EMF and Xtext - has propelled us forward and gave us a tried and tested framework to build upon. The IDE is well known, supported, loved, and used in our sector and is the baseline of our product suite.

- Titouan Vervack, at Sigasi

Our goal is to make Spring developers around the world as productive as possible when working with Spring in the IDE of their choice. Hundreds of thousands of them use Eclipse and the Spring Tools extensions for Eclipse for their daily work. It is their backbone while working on (oftentimes business critical) Spring applications world-wide. We joined the Eclipse IDE WG in order to contribute back to the ecosystem, to support ongoing development of the Eclipse IDE, and to foster collaboration among others with similar interest in this IDE.

- Martin Lippert, at VMware