Eclipse IDE

I am writing this blog out of my experience to share the key details of the different IDEs I have used while programming in Force.comenviroment. This might help an experienced or newbie developer in choosing the right IDE to code. My favorite and most probably every programmers most loved IDE. Eclipse is famous as a Java Integrated Development Environment (IDE). Salesforce You can easily combine language support and other features into any of our default packages, and the Eclipse marketplace allows for virtually unlimited customization and extension. Eclipse give a feel of traditional desktop based programming from developer end and in back end it saves all in Salesforce Cloud.

Eclipse for Salesforce:

To code apex in eclipse you have to first install Force.com IDE in your eclipse in order to sync your local server with salesforce server.

What Force.com IDE can do :

Customizable Folders Structure:

No more limitations for files or folders structures. Now developers can organize them in whatever way they want.

Apex Code Completion

Save time, improve the coding velocity, and avoid making mistakes with Code Completion functionality for Apex.

Apex Code

Anonymous Apex Execution:

Test new solutions, debug your code or work with your organization using the Anonymous Apex with all of the code editing features you've got used to.

Anonymous Apex Code

Quick Search of a Current Selection:

Once you select any text in your code all its occurrences within the document will be highlighted and marked on the scrollbar automatically.

Debug Logs:

When debugging code you usually execute Anonymous Apex, perform some actions in the UI or start scheduled jobs which then produce lots of logs for you to go through. In most cases your actions would provide you whatever information you need pretty easily but sometimes you need only some specific logs – with very long duration, very small or very big logs, failed or succeeded logs and so on.

Find and replace:

Find, preview, and replace text as you type in a file or across all your projects.

Latest Features:

• Execute Apex Test Suites
• Enjoy Optimized Test Execution
• See Apex Test Results More Quickly
• Enabled code-coverage highlighting in Apex classes
• Provided whitelist filtering for user and request-type debugging in the Apex Debugger
• Share Apex Debugger licenses among your sandbox orgs
• Enabled Eclipse’s Java development tools (JDT) icons for Apex variables in the Apex Debugger

To know more read the blog here.