Good lightweight Java IDE?

[cyberknight]

Wanting to try out a new IDE for this term. My class is using JGrasp. I dunno, few things about it bug me, wondering if there are better alternatives out there.

I've used JBuilder Personal 9 and BlueJ. I don't think JBuilder is good for me, due to the fact that it pulls those dropdown menus when you "." (dot) a class. don't think that would be beneficial for my learning purposes. BlueJ was okay. I liked the UML diagrams it automatically generated. Though, I found it had some stability issues. Sometimes things would just go out of wack. Or if I ran a program with an endless loop, it would sometimes continue to exist after I terminated it. And it would continue to eat more and more memory, only a reboot would fix it.

So my preferences:
1) lightweight
2) some auto generated UML diagram would be really nice
3) free of course.

So what do you guys suggest?

 

[notfred]

Eclipse is the best free Java IDE, in my opinion. It's not exactly "lightweight", though.

 

[znaps]

I can't think of anything that's both lightweight and includes UML diagramming.

Maybe you should just use JEdit and the JDK?

 

[Asparagus]

The Netbeans 3.6 IDE that comes with the j2sdk install is pretty nice - nothing too incredibly fancy, but it works very nicely! From what I've seen, it doesn't do UML diagramming.

I agree with notfred though, Eclipse is definitely the booty-kickin' IDE...VERY robust.

 

[imported_obsidian]

Originally posted by: notfred
Eclipse is the best free Java IDE, in my opinion. It's not exactly "lightweight", though.

I agree with this Eclipse is great, but isn't really lightweight. It does have a ton of features though, and you cannot beat the price.