Ever wonder what are the most popular Eclipse plugins? The Eclipse Marketplace is keeping track of the number of times developers install different solutions from the Marketplace Client. The data from last 4+ plus monthsstarts to show what are the most popular Eclipse solutions. Here are the top 10 for the last 30 days and Alltime (since the client was launched as part of Helios)
Top 10 (last 30 days)
| Rank | Solution | Count |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Subclipse | 5125 |
| 2 | Subversive – SVN Team Provider | 2991 |
| 3 | Spring IDE | 2524 |
| 4 | JBoss Tools | 1977 |
| 5 | Pydev – Python IDE for Eclipse | 1924 |
| 6 | EGit – Git Team Provider | 1852 |
| 7 | Google Plugin for Eclipse | 1812 |
| 8 | FindBugs Eclipse Plugin | 1691 |
| 9 | GlassFish Java EE Application Server Plugin for Eclipse | 1256 |
| 10 | EclEmma Java Code Coverage | 1187 |
Top 10 (Alltime)
| Rank | Solution | Count |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Subclipse | 23361 |
| 2 | Subversive – SVN Team Provider | 13093 |
| 3 | Spring IDE | 8831 |
| 4 | FindBugs Eclipse Plugin | 8289 |
| 5 | Pydev – Python IDE for Eclipse | 8135 |
| 6 | Google Plugin for Eclipse | 7103 |
| 7 | EGit – Git Team Provider | 6988 |
| 8 | Maven Integration for Eclipse | 4623 |
| 9 | GlassFish Java EE Application Server Plugin for Eclipse | 4404 |
| 10 | Checkstyle Plug-in | 4380 |
| Rank | Solution | Count |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Subclipse | 5125 |
| 2 | Subversive – SVN Team Provider | 2991 |
| 3 | Spring IDE | 2524 |
| 4 | JBoss Tools | 1977 |
| 5 | Pydev – Python IDE for Eclipse | 1924 |
| 6 | EGit – Git Team Provider | 1852 |
| 7 | Google Plugin for Eclipse | 1812 |
| 8 | FindBugs Eclipse Plugin | 1691 |
| 9 | GlassFish Java EE Application Server Plugin for Eclipse | 1256 |
| 10 | EclEmma Java Code Coverage | 1187 |
A complete listing and breakdown by country. If you haven’t tried out the Marketplace Client, give it a try. If you have a solution that isn’t listed, feel free to add it.
Ian Skerrett 
Surprising results. I always use the p2 update manager. For example the Google pages point to their update site and not to the marketplace. Therefore I assume the real numbers are quite different.
@Lars For sure the actual numbers are much higher and this ranking is biased to the products listed in the Marketplace Client.
Subclipse being twice as popular as Subversive in the overall stats, that should tell us a bit about the quality and sense of these providers ?;-)
Would be nice to see the Aptana folks work with the EGit and JGit teams to ensure compatibility instead of developing their own solution.
I like PyDev and Maven too
Other useful plugins are Jenkins and snip2code.
With snip2code I find many interesting free code snippets and I collect them quickly. Recommended.
I I recommend my two small open source plugins … 🙂
http://code.google.com/p/eclipserunnerplugin/
http://code.google.com/p/eclipse-organigram-plugin/