prefered java ide?

[RichieZ]

I'm getting into java and I'm curious what IDE you guys use? The ones I've heard of are Eclipse, SunONE and Netbeans. I'm leaning toward Eclipse at the moment. What are ppl's opinnions/thoughts on these.

For reference, I'm very used to Visual Studio and somewhat familair with gcc.

 

[Argo]

I used WSAD which is based on Eclipse. If you're not doing J2EE development then eclipse is probably better since it's slightly lighter. Either way - eclipse wins hands down. Especially if you're coming from VS environment.

 

[Kilrsat]

I just use TextPad and 2 command windows (one compile, one run)

This is not rapid graphical development, the goal for my current project was to develop a java GUI application from only text to get a real feel for how the display is handled.

Its currently pushing 29,000 lines and running, and the display is coming together.

If you don't need all the pretty graphics, just looking for syntax highlighting, and can handle reading the debug messages from javac, this approach works very well.

Other than that, I've heard Eclipse works well, and I keep meaning to give Oracle JDeveloper a try.