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The open source Eclipse Project is rapidly obtaining majority market share among development platforms, according to analysts' surveys as well as adoption rates by major vendors. According to industry surveys, well over half the developers contacted prefer Eclipse as their primary Java IDE. In coding productivity features and as a professional code oriented developer tool, IDEA is the only product that stands in competition with Eclipse.
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