So far, we’ve been using a basic text editor to edit our code, and we’ve been using the command line to compile and run our classes. It’s a good idea to start programming this way, so you understand the basics of compiling, running, setting the classpath, and looking stuff up in the Java API. But as you start working on more complicated code, you’re probably going to want to use an integrated development environment, aka an IDE.
This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://happycoding.io/tutorials/java/eclipse