I have downloaded the latest Eclipse IDE, Galileo, and tested it to see if it good for developing web applications in Java. I have also tried the Ganymede version of Eclipse and find that is it also good.
My Problem is that sometimes it hangs and stops responding while I am developing. Sometimes when I open a file, Eclipse hangs and does not respond for awhile. It seems that Eclipse is going slower and my job is getting slower because of the time that I am spending waiting for the response of Eclipse.
When I went to NetBeans 6.7, it was good and the performance was good. The loading is faster and the IDE responds well during my development testing.
My computer has 1 GB of RAM and a 1.6 GHz CPU.
What can you say about this?
I’m using Eclipse PDT 2.1 (also based on Galileo) for PHP development, and I’ve been using Eclipse-based IDE for 3 years now ; my observation is that 1 GB of RAM is generally not enough to run Eclipse + some kind of web server + DB server + browser + other stuff 🙁
I’m currently working with a 1GB of RAM machine, and it’s slow as hell… Few months ago, I had a 2GB of RAM machine, and things were going really fine — and I’m having less software running on the “new machine” than I had on the other one !
Other things that seem to affect Eclipse’s responsivness is :
A nice to do with languages like PHP (might not be OK for JAVA projects, though) is to disable “automatically build” in “project”‘s menu.
As a sidenote : I’ve already seen questions about eclipse’s speed on SO ; you might want to try so searches, to get answers faster 😉