What's the best IDE to program with Java?

Question

What would you suggest?

Answer 1

IntelliJ IDEA, Eclipse, NetBeans. Often you will have to use IDE used by developers team that you'll start to work with/in... or even use IDE that was used in a project you alone are starting to work with. First of all you can check statistics of IDEs used around (as I remember NetBeans is rarest one, while IDEA is growing fast and is at "first place" already).

Answer 2

I suggest you trying IntelliJ Idea, from JetBrains i really like it, I tried Eclipse and NetBeans but liked IJ more of both of them. it depends on personal opinion. What really matters is to KNOW your environment.

Answer 3

In my opinion the good old Eclipse.
There are so much plugins to extend the IDE for your needs and i havent big problems with eclipse since i started using it (about 9 years ago)

but there are a lot of other good IDE's
maybe inteliJ or netbeans or some of my friends use simple notepad++.

I think you should test a few and take that one you like most

Answer 4

I was thinking about using Eclipse, but someone told me it was bad and there are better IDEs. So I wanted to hear out what people are thinking here :)

But if you're saying Eclipse works fine, I'll probably try it

Answer 5

Mostly this is a case of preference, so I would suggest for you to try all the major ones and see which one is your preference. Personally I prefer NetBeans, it's very resourceful, even more when you are developing graphical applications.

Answer 6

I use NetBeans... I think its good enough, and Oracle recommends it.

Answer 7

Echlipse is very good becouse its so easy to write code and create classes. For beginner echlipse can be frustrating but its worth it!