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I am a huge Eclipse fan, so that would be my recommendation.  If you do
evaluate Eclipse, the eclipse.tools newsgroup can be an very helpful
resource. Of course, one of the major advantages of Eclipse is it's free.

I assume you develop on Windows, so you have a lot of options.  Many people
like IDEA (http://www.intellij.com/idea/) for commerical products, although
often times for things you also get in Eclipse (easy refactoring and such).

Also note that IBM sells a product which extends Eclipse called WSAD
(Websphere Studio Application Developer).  Although 4.X is a little
outdated, WSAD 5.0, which has all the features of Eclipse 2.0 plus a lot of
extra extensions for EJB, JSP, XML, and GUI development, should be released
soon.

If you give more details on exactly the type of development you will be
doing, you will probably get better responses:  i.e web development
(Servlets/JSPs), distributed apps (EJBs), GUI (thin client or fat client),
etc.

-Andrew

"Angel" <transnation2k@nospam.hotmail.com> wrote in message
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>
> I've been programming stuff via GUI and other software packages like
> UltraDev, InterDev by MS and wanted to try out Vis. Studio's VJ's package
> but never got to it.
>
> The company is getting into java/moving and and I need to pick up Java
> ASAP.
>
> I read quite a bit and I am looking into JBuilder and Eclipse.  I worked
> with prev. people in the past and they highly SPEAK of Borland in general.
>
> Not just of their JBuilder but their Delphi and their C++.
>
> I need to pick up java quick and I needed something that is easy to use
> maybe lots of tools and wizards; if possible.  I also used MS InterDev
> and liked the built-in tools that works with IIS and others.
>
> I haven't tried JBuilder no Eclipse yet.  I am d/l Eclipse right now
> and wonder how this will be like.
>
> Eventually I will continue studying the language and pick up other
> necessary programs that will be required by school like VB intro
> and Advance, Java and few others.
>
> I think by using Java I won't be limited to just the M$ systems
> and I can move to WebLogic; other Databases like Oracle or
> mySQL (in my case).
>
> Price would not be an issue.