The Java IDE market is currently a four-way battlefield between Eclipse, IntelliJ, JetBrains‚ NetBeans, and Oracle JDeveloper. (Borland’s announcement that it is getting rid of JBuilder and ...

For this review, I did fresh installations of IntelliJ IDEA Ultimate 2022.1.1, Eclipse Installer 2022-03 and the Eclipse IDE for Enterprise Java and Web Developers, and NetBeans 13 on a MacBook Pro.

IDEA and NetBeans are both horrific. Eclipse is the only way to go. Blow away your Eclipse directory and start with a virginal install.

There is a simple Maven Checkstyle plugin, and the Checkstyle plugins for Eclipse, NetBeans and IntelliJ enable it to easily integrate into all of the most popular Java IDEs. The Checkstyle plugin for ...