All these years I am using MS-Access/VB of Visual Studio 6.0 to create my database applications. Now, I want to develop in Java so that I can migrate my own Apps in the Java platform.
I am learning Java using notepad (text editor). Can anyone help me with an intelligent (friendly) editor like visual studio 6.0/VB-Editor and help like MSDN that's available in Java so that I can learn and start doing my work faster.
Thanks in advance.

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u can use
1] JBuilder
2] Eclipse

I guess these are quite similar to the visual studio env.
I have some exp with JBuilder . U can download it from the borland site

Download NetBeans IDE from sun's website. This is your best choice since it was created by the developers of Java

I'll put in a shout for eclipse which is IBM's offering :
http://www.onjava.com/pub/a/onjava/2...se.html?page=1

And for vim which, though far from friendly is what I use:
http://www.vim.org

Cheers

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