What Java IDE to use?

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Hey. So I've started learning Java, going through a few tutorials and a book. I've got no idea what graphical IDE to use as in Visual Studio for C# sorta thing, what you guys use stricly for Java alone?

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Java coders in general use either Netbeans or Eclipse. Personally I prefer netbeans.
 
/me puts flame suit on

My experience is that Eclipse is more enterprise-ready, but can be a massive mission to use for someone that's just starting out. Do it in vim :)
 
I am using JDeveloper at the moment but i would say go for Eclipse which is the base for all other IDEs.
 
I prefer netbeans from the free IDEs, but intellij is definitely the best if you're willing to pay a little for your IDE :)
 
If you want something small without all the extras, jGrasp is neat. Used it when all I needed was a debugger.
 
I use IntelliJ IDEA from Jetbrains, The community version is still pretty cool, especially if you are starting out, its fast and intuitive.
 
ready to program is tiny and includes documentation. 14mbs.

otherwise netbeans eclipse or code:blocks in linux
 
I use IntelliJ community edition. I used Eclipse for a while but it seriously sucked donkey balls. When it created a recursive nest of folders so deep I had to resort to alternative means to delete it I finally abandoned it. Never looked back.
Terrible IDE if you ask me.

If you are used to Resharper in Visual Studio then IntelliJ makes the most sense (same company). It works great too.

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Personally, I found when learning java, that a fancy IDE just over complicated matters. You end up spending more time learning the IDE than the language.

Sometimes a decent text editor which does keyword highlighting is enough. I dont use java anymore, but I used jdeveloper when I did at work, mainly because of it's integration with Oracle which is main skill. When I learnt java I used ultra edit text editor. These days my text editor is Notepad+
 
eclipse by far
and once your used to the IDE and you need to do other languages (Flex, PHP etc) you can just install the plugins and off you go
 
for beginner i prefer jcreator. its not complex and is easy to use until you get the basics.
 
If you just starting with java and only doing basic console type apps...then JCreator is by far the easiest to install and use for the first time programmer. Eclipse is too complicated for a complete beginner(will take a while to figure out how everything works). Once I had to do my first GUI, Netbeans was MUCH easier for me to use than Eclipse again... Netbeans by default includes a "form designer" to easily and very quickly create basic GUI's too...
 
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