Eclipse
The Eclipse project is a fairly new integrated development environment that can be used with Java code. It’s written in Java and it has a very nice Java editing environment, but it was designed as a platform for hosting different types of tools. The current version is 2.0, and it runs on multiple platforms. Eclipse is available from www.eclipse.org, but be sure to get the 2.0 version because it is far better than the 1.0 distribution. It supports color syntax formatting and highlighting, code completion, incremental builds, and easy access to JavaDoc. Eclipse doesn’t have a GUI builder, so if you want to easily build Swing applications, you might need to find a different IDE.
Eclipse comes with its own incremental compiler, but it understands ...
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