what's Eclipse? - laura

free open-source programming-environment. i've been using BlueJ so far, which is like a kids bicycle with support wheels, Eclipse be real bike. - Christopher Harris

Eclipse is well worth the effort and has a lot of very good language specific plugins. I have been using it for a couple of years now and wouldn't use anything else. Feel free to ask if you need any help getting going. - Ian Simpson from twhirl

I've learned Java with eclipse. The editor, the code completion, etc... make the learning Curve exponential. - Pierre Lindenbaum