IDE for Java

If u r a beginner i would recommend JCreator(www.jcreator.com) - has a good feel, easy to set up, project-based, rudimentary debugging and cheap. If u r after a simple text editor that compiles and runs and has syntax settings. If u r not a beginner u probably know whats the best. Eclipse ofcourse the IDE for many in the know and netbeans always has it"s fans. If u r new 2 java, dnt afraid give a try 2 Eclipse. In the end it's all about what u are comfortable with, but sometimes that takes a while to discover... So play around!.

I've been using JCreator since I first learn java. I'm comfortable with it. But I don't know whether it's the best IDE. I read that a lot of people like eclipse. Maybe I should go download and try it out. LoL.

Hi friends, I prefer eclipse with a plugin for tomcat and jboss.With this I can create normal java classes and also java web projects.It is easy with eclipse.Also it is easy for debuggin in eclipse.

While I agree that Eclipse is the best IDE, loaded to the hilt with features, its feature richness also makes it extremely heavy. I study in an institute that has about 80 machines in the lab, all of them being Celeron 733s with about 128 MB of RAM. It would be impossible to install even the light version of Eclipse and run it properly on machines having such specs. Do you have any suggestions to what I can use for such systems?

I think that the best java IDE is IntelliJ IDEA; it is a commercial product, but it has a lot of nice features (like code generation, code assistant, refactoring, etc.) and it is very intuitive.

Eclipse all the way! I have an older computer and every time I try to start NetBeans I may as well go to the local Starbucks, hang out there for a while, then come back and still wait 15 minutes.

IF you want to find the best IDE for java.I think Eclipse3.21+MyEclipse 5.5 is the best IDE.It's so cool.It's help you to make the java program very easy.