MyEclipse: Is still worth to use it? [closed]

Question

Since 2005 we are using MyEclipse as our standard development tool. We use it mainly for for Java applications, but from time to time we use it also for Groovy and may be other stuff, like DB navigator, etc.

Our licences should be renewed in a couple of months and I am rethinking the decision of using it. A nice feature of MyEclipse was the debugger which allows us to debug client/server applications. Also the hot deployment was a nice feature. All this stuff can be done without MyEclipse and comparing the memory footprint of MyEclipse 7.1 woth Eclipse Ganymede the last one wins for far. The licence price doesn't matter.

Then the question is what I do loose not using MyEclipse anymore?

opinions are welcome.

Luis

Answer 1

We used to use MyEclipse but we just stopped doing so over time, and didn't really miss it. We're now on Ganymede EE and find it has everything we need, having now implemented some of the things bundled with MyEclipse. Syntax highlighting across various sources such as .css, .js and .sql is nice to have out-of-the-box. And we've always used the remote debugger built right in - it's pretty neat imo, but I didn't realise there was anything special with MyEclipse in this regard. And of course you can install Eclipse and MyEclipse side-by-side while you try things out.

Answer 2

I was using MyEclipse for about 3 years between 2002 and 2005. Currently, the functionality coming with Ganymede is IMHO good enough to live without it

Answer 3

A good JavaScript/HTML/CSS editing support, if that concerns you. It was one of the main reason I shifted to Netbeans, not Eclipse, after a using the IntelliJ for a long period.

Answer 4

MyEclipse 8 allows you to configure away some of the many options to improve startup speeds.

There were many problems with v7, especially to do with proxy internet connections, but these seem to be fixed now.