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I always coded in c++ but since my university decided java is the way to go I have been forced down that path for the past 24 months. I now want to code a bit of a personal project over the holidays, and since my c++ skills are now a bit rusty I thought I would go with java.

I've been looking for ages for a decent IDE but can't seem to come to a conclusion. Does anyone have any experience with any good/bad ides? I'm only really looking for a decent visual debugger, everything else is just gravy.

So far I have found:

kdevelop (I use it for c++, but i don't really like it (buggy)- plus I can't seem to make heads or tails of it when coding in java (extra buggy)) http://www.kdevelop.org/
Eclipse - http://www.eclipse.org/
monodevelop - http://www.monodevelop.com/Main_Page

so far I've been using geany - http://geany.uvena.de/ - an ide so simple and nice to use it gives me a chubby - unfortunately it has no debugging, so if anyone knows of a graphic debugger only that would be cool too. cheers
I use BlueJ, but it's only really for small applications
Eclipse is a very good one.
There are also a lot of companies that use it.
Once heard that even the NASA uses it!

JBuilder is also pretty good, but I don't know if it's free.
of course the almighty eclipse
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