Link to Article: Since Eclipse's first release in 2001, it has become a popular environment for Java development. In the period between March 10 and May 11, 2005, users downloaded over 17,000 copies of one of the production SDK releases and over 3,500 copies of one of the stable (milestone) SDK builds on average every day. A vibrant eco-system of developers, plug-in providers, authors, and bloggers has grown up around it. Eclipse has also gained the backing of the key Java vendors including BEA, Borland, IBM, SAP, and Sybase. Developers like Eclipse because it provides a great platform for building Java applications, and companies like it because it unifies their software tools under one open source umbrella.
Take a look also in Eclipse-Wiki page.
Here is 7 (seven) good reasons to migrate to Eclipse 3.1?
1) Full support for the new language construtions in J2SE 5.0 (or J2SE 1.5): generics, annotations, enuns, auto boxing, enhanced for loop etc.
2) Fast compilation. Eclipse 3.1 has its own compiler that brings some benefits: besides raise you productivity, we have now smoother debugging and refactoring and a lot of diagnostic warinings.
3) Eclipse 3.1 improves its Ant support by including the latest version of Ant.
4) This version is a lot faster and uses far less memory for common operations, comparing with version 3.0.
5) Ready for large projects: Eclipse Platform team created one consisting of 135 separate projects and 70,000 classes and other resources. Good enough hum?
6) Return of the Java Client: the Rich Client Platform (RCP) is a subset of Eclipse that provides a framework for application development.
7) Over 7,000 enhancements requests and bug reports have been addressed in release 3.1.
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