The development of Eclipse began in November 2001, and focused on building an open development platform comprising extensible frameworks, tools, and runtimes
for building, deploying, and managing software across the life cycle of a product. Today, Eclipse is one of the most widely used Java development and deployment platforms:

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However, it can be daunting for developers unfamiliar with such frameworks.
The first challenge developers must face with Eclipse is selecting the various components necessary for their work, such as an application server, Web application framework, database server, and an object relational mapping layer, t.-0 name a few. For the life-cycle management of an application or the use of a development platform by a team of developers, version control and issue tracking modules are also needed.

All of this translates into a significant amount of preparatory work that must be completed before starting the Java application development work. So how can developers get the freedom and flexibility of Eclipse without all that work?