For this review, I did fresh installations of IntelliJ IDEA Ultimate 2022.1.1, Eclipse Installer 2022-03 and the Eclipse IDE for Enterprise Java and Web Developers, and NetBeans 13 on a MacBook Pro.

Eclipse supports a wide range of project developments, including C/C++, PHP, Python and Perl via extensible plug-ins. The IDE is cross-platform and runs on Windows, Linux and Mac OS.

All these prerequisites come prepackaged with the Eclipse distribution of the Spring Tools Suite (STS). I highly recommended the use of Eclipse STS, but any modern IDE such as IntelliJ or VS Code will ...