Are there any free tutorials for using eclipse with workbench? I have not use eclipse and don’t want to learn using Java.
This question does not seem to have been answered in previous posts (maybe no tutorials exist).
Thanks in advance.
wow - 3 years and no replies. i’d like to know also, if anyone knows of any…
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I tried using Wolfram’s Workbench ≈20 years ago. (Serious attempts, by the way – I worked at WRI at the time.) It was too clunky because it is based on Eclipse, hence, I continued using Emacs + Mathematica.
Until October 2025 I used IntelliJ’s Wolfram Language plug-in. JetBrains (IntelliJ’s makers) changed their policies to Open Source contributors, so, I could not use that plug-in anymore, except, if purchased via JetBrains. I have made such purchase in the past and I was not particularly satisfied. (By the way, purchasing the plug-in completely justified from a financial point of view. I just do not like the occasional “not working” disruptions because of updates and license expirations.)
Hence, I gave Wolfram’s Eclipse Workbench (WEW) another try few months ago. WEW is much more agile and useful – at least on macOS. But somehow I have the same “clunky” experience with it. So, I decided to not use WEW and use instead Wolfram Desktop + Visual Studio Code. (So far, so good.)
There is some information here: Wolfram Support Quick Answers: How do I install the Wolfram Workbench plugin for Eclipse?
A long time ago there was a M235 course developed by WRI and taught ( I gave some classes organized by the Benelux reseller, CAN (https://www.can.nl).
You can ask Jamie Peterson from WRI if she is willing to let me update the course.
I find WEW still very useful for larger projects.
Especially handy are the shortcut F3 (find and jump to function definition, also to other package files) and fast search over all project files (Ctrl h), something which only recently was being discussed for the Notebook Frontend in the wolfram youtube channel.
Maybe WEW is a bit clunky, and not without minor problems, but features like automatic reloading of saved files though (“MEET`” packge) are just not present neither in VSCode nor the IntelliJ plugin.
I never understood how one can effectively write and maintain larger WL projects, with thousands of lines in the Notebook FrontEnd. An IDE is clearly necessary, at least for somewhat larger projects.
Notice that you can also use multiple IDEs on the same files simultaneously. No problem.