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Java IDEs

It seems like the modern ones are really great & feature rich. I remember seeing people use VisualCafe, JBuilder and my favourite IDE VisualAge for Java.

It seems like the most popular choices today are :

IntelliJ from JetBrains - really popular with Java pros
Eclipse - quite fast and uses native GUI toolkit SWT
NetBeans - I'm trying this one out, version 5.5.1 seems great.

I would still really like a VAJ return, it was a wonderful IDE, the built in version control system was excellent.
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