Does Sublime Text 2 win over Eclipse for Java Development [closed]

Answer 1

You will find these features (and many others) in Netbeans. Perhaps you'll be more comfortable using it; IDEs are always a personal thing.

And to answer your "question", despite not having any experience with the tool you suggest, I can safely say one can easily work with anything, provided he has a properly set up environment - such as the type a well-configured maven project would reside in.

Answer 2

I used Sublime Text 2 for development a while ago and I must say... I went crawling back to Eclipse. Sublime Text isn't much of a IDE but more of a editor. It's very good and fast for editing scripts but you will miss some features like:

• Quickfix: Which can save you a lot of time
• Code completion: Sublime has code completion. But it's nowhere near the level of Eclipse. Even with plugins

On a side note: I miss the slick UI of Sublime when working in Eclipse. But Eclipse does it's job very well and that is what counts in the end.

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As of this year (2014) my IDE of choice is IDEA IntelliJ. It is the best IDE for Java development hands down. It has all the features you're interested in and even a dark theme (dracula). Only downside is that it costs a penny, but it's definitely worth it.