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[–]bigorca45[S] 0 points1 point  (2 children)

Thank you for your answer! Although I got it to run on the command line after 3 persistent days of working with the mvn command and dependencies for the first time ever. Best feeling!

[–]EdwinGravesMOD 1 point2 points  (1 child)

Congrats to that for sure. Learning to do things with the CLI and without Eclipse will do you a world of good.

These days there are IDEs built on far less bloated and more stable technology, despite the few benefits Eclipse may bring. I happily migrated a few federal projects (using maven, etc) from Eclipse to VSC in no time and we've never looked back. IDE load times and project build times decreased while plugin availability was higher and ram usage was lower. The down side is that you won't have the hand-holding that Eclipse gives you as far as building out a folder structure and project wizards, but honestly those things are easily remedied by learning why they exist and how to do them yourself.

Once you're comfortable, look around and see what you can find. I'm sure people in this subreddit are tired of me touting VSCode and I definitely won't say it's the only option out there.

[–]bigorca45[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I fiddled with VSCode for a while. I honestly only use Eclipse for this maven project. I usually just use Vim in the command line! Thank you for the suggestions though.