Java programming tools span a wide variety of categories and technologies. Review this comprehensive list to narrow down which tools you need to improve software development.

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.

Move over, Oracle Java. Downloads of the Eclipse Foundation’s Temurin Java SE binaries have more than doubled year over year, to more than 12 million downloads per month, Eclipse said on March 14.

Open the Eclipse Java programming software from the Windows menu. Open your Java project in the Eclipse software to view all of your project files. Double-click the Java file you want to use to ...