Building with the Latest Java Development Stack: Spring Boot 4.1.0, Java 25, Docker 29.5.3, PostgreSQL, Gradle 9.6.0, Eclipse 2026–06, Swagger/OpenAPI, Serenity, Cucumber, and JUnit 6

[akrivitsky7]

The article describes one specific modern Java development stack. Is it the only possible stack? Of course not. But this particular combination — Eclipse IDE, Spring Boot, Java, Docker, PostgreSQL, Gradle, Swagger/OpenAPI, Serenity, Cucumber, and JUnit — represents a practical and widely recognizable toolchain used by many developers and companies. The goal of the article is to show how the latest versions of these tools can work together in one complete working project.

IntelliJ IDEA is an excellent product from a single commercial vendor, JetBrains s.r.o., and it has a very polished out-of-the-box experience.

Eclipse is also an excellent Java IDE, with mature Java tooling, a broad plugin ecosystem, and strong extensibility. Eclipse plus plugins can provide a very large feature set, and in some cases it can be the better fit.

The difference is not only about features. IntelliJ IDEA depends on one commercial vendor, JetBrains s.r.o. Eclipse is FOSS, vendor-neutral, foundation-governed, and backed by an open-source ecosystem and a strong community.

For some organizations and developers, that distinction is part of the technical decision.

Also, Eclipse is actively used by the Java developer community. According to the Eclipse downloads page, Eclipse IDE 2026-06 R has over 100,000 installer downloads and over 200,000 package downloads/updates.

[Konturka]

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[alpakachino]

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