Which Java IDE is best? Compare IntelliJ IDEA , Eclipse, and NetBeans for features, usability, and compatibility with your favorite tools and frameworks.

There has been a long-standing battle in the Java community over which Integrated Development Environment (IDE) is best. From the TSS Readership Survey, the two most popular choices are Eclipse and ...

The Java tools market is getting an extreme makeover, and like the nipped-and-tucked subjects of a TV-reality show, the commercial vendors are feeling some pain, bracing for an uncertain outcome and ...

NetBeans, a popular Java IDE formerly supported by Sun Microsystems and later Oracle, has graduated from the Apache Software Foundation's incubator to become a top-level project, where it will benefit ...

JetBrains is shipping version 9 of its IntelliJ Idea IDE for Java, this time offering both commercial and open source versions. The commercial edition, called Ultimate, features a set of tools and ...

i am in the process of choosing a java IDE and compiler, and im being very careful. because i know that when i decide on one, i will never want to change. what do you guys use? the debugger is the ...

As a fairly new Java programmer, what IDE do you recommend? I've had a copy of MSVJ++, but since I use a lot of swing and stuff, it's fairly useless.

Support for Java 7 standard edition (SE) is the focus of the new toolset and Oracle claims it is the first open-source IDE to support the JDK 7 preview.

JetBrains is offering a milestone release of the upcoming IntelliJ Idea 9 IDE for Java application development, featuring capabilities ranging from OSGi backing to improved performance and PHP ...

Oracle claims NetBeans 7 is the first open source IDE to support the next-generation Java platform.