Best Free Java IDEs

An integrated development environment (IDE) is one of the essential components of a software project. It facilitates the development process.

IDEs improve developer productivity by reducing the time it takes to set up, speeding up development work, keeping developers up to date on the latest risks and best practices, as well as standardizing the development workflow so that anyone can take part.

IDEs also help to streamline development. They allow programmers to think of their work as a whole software development lifecycle (SDLC) instead of a series of isolated steps.

 

The 8 Best Java IDEs:

 

1. Eclipse

Eclipse is an open-source Java development environment for developers. Most of its code is written in Java. With Eclipse, we can create cross-platform applications for mobile devices, web browsers, desktop computers, and enterprise applications.

We can easily add multilingual support and other functionality to any of our built-in packages, and we are rewarded with virtually limitless customization and extensification via the eclipse emporium.

You can easily install a large collection of implements into our Eclipse Desktop IDE, such as GUI builders, modeling implements, charting implements, reporting implements, testing implements and more.

We can use the Eclipse Marketplace to search for, install, and approve pre-built plug-ins from a wide variety of providers.

Eclipse is compatible with Windows, Mac and Linux operating systems. The Eclipse IDE can be downloaded directly from the official website.
 


2. NetBeans 

In addition to being a text editor, NetBeans is also a tool for highlighting source code in both syntactical and semantic terms. It allows you to easily refactor code with a variety of powerful tools. It also provides you with editors, wizards and templates to enable you to extend your applications to Java, PHP, and many more languages.

NetBeans can be installed on all operating systems that support Java, i.e, Windows, Linux, Mac OSX, and BSD. WORA, applies to NetBeans additionally.


 

3. IntelliJ IDEA Community Edition 

The IntelliJ IDEA IDE is a powerful and widely used Integrated Development Environment (IDE) for the Java programming language, Kotlin programming language, Groovy programming language, Scala programming language, and Android programming language. Developed and managed by JetBrains, it is available as a community and final edition. This opulent IDE allows for fast development and improves code quality.

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4. JDeveloper 

Oracle J Developer is a free, fully integrated development environment for Java-based applications that manages every stage of the application development lifecycle for Oracle’s platform and Oracle’s applications.

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5. BlueJ 

BlueJ is an open source Java development platform that allows us to create Java programs quickly and easily. BlueJ is simple, interactive, portable, mature, and innovative. BlueJ works on Windows, Mac and Ubuntu.

BlueJ has a huge community of users who benefit from finding the support for beginners and learning the basics of software development.

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6. VSCodium

VSCodium is an easy-to-use, free-to-use integrated development environment (IDE) for Windows, macOS, and Linux. It’s an open-source, cross-platform IDE built on the Visual Studio Code.
 
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7. jGRASP

A lightweight development environment called jGRASP was specifically designed to improve software comprehensibility by automatically generating software visualizations. All platforms that support the Java Virtual Machine (Java version 1.8 or higher) can run jGRASP because it is implemented in Java.
 
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8. Dr. Java

DrJava is an easy-to-use inscribing editor for Java. It is primarily aimed at students, offering a user-friendly interface and the ability to evaluate Java code interactively. It also has puissant capabilities for more sophisticated users.

DrJava is free to use under BSD License.


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