How to migrate to Eclipse from ...
September 9th, 2004
IBM has posted a series of articles for those shy people that aren't ready to learn a new IDE hands-on (duh):
- Migrating to Eclipse: A developer's guide to evaluating Eclipse vs. IntelliJ IDEA
- Migrating to Eclipse: A developer's guide to evaluating Eclipse vs. JBuilder
- Migrating to Eclipse: A developer's guide to evaluating Eclipse vs. Netbeans
How reading such large amounts of text will persuade you to use Eclipse, is beyond me (especially if you already actually tried Eclipse once), but if it does: good for you!
Via Erik

April 21st, 2008 at 10:17 PM Does anyone know why there is no Eclipse vs. vim or Eclipse vs Emacs?
April 21st, 2008 at 10:17 PM My guess is: because they think that people who still use vim or emacs for programming, are beyond salvation...
April 21st, 2008 at 10:17 PM But, luckily, there is viPlugin. Although I'm still not clear whether it is commercialware or not. I don't use anything else, but still haven't felt or seen nagging reminders to buy the plugin. ah well...
April 21st, 2008 at 10:17 PM Perhaps because there's no point in migrating to Eclipse from Emacs. I've just spent the last couple of weeks making the attempt and have become thoroughly annoyed with Eclipse. It may make Java project-oriented development simple, but it's bloody annoying to do anything else. note there is no closing tag to this rant...