You can seriously improve your productivity by using Spring Tools plugins for creating spring-based applications. Many Java programmer creates a Spring-based application like any other Java project, which is not bad, but not optimal. I have seen many Java developers not really using Eclipse to their fullest extent. Similarly, adding Spring Tools plugins helps you to create Spring and Spring Boot based applications really easily. For example, once you install the EGit plugin, you can manage your Git repository right from Eclipse. I have seen productivity improvement by just installing the right kind of plugins. There are specific plugins for Java development, Python Development, creating Spring-based Java applications,s and for creating Android apps from Eclipse itself. There are planning to use Maven or Gradle from Eclipse.

There are hundreds of Eclipse plugins for different kinds of tasks and integration with other essential tools like there are plugins to download code from Github, SVN, CVS, etc.

There is no doubt that Eclipse is one of the most popular IDEs for Java development, and what makes Eclipse great is nothing but Plugins.

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