IBM VisualAge Java 3.0 is awesome. I have used 3 Java IDEs - VAJ, JBuiler, and MS Visual J++. VJ++ simply stinks, so I will not waste time on it. JBuilder is nice, but doesn't do anything special. IBM VAJ gives you a VERY nice GUI builder which requires NO programming to create a fully functional program, is by far the most OO environment, has an awesome debugger, and is available on more platforms than any other IDE (Win32, Linux, OS/2, OS/390, AIX, etc.). In the Win32 version they are supposed to have JDK 1.2 support, but I don't think that happened in the Linux version.
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IBM VisualAge Java 3.0 is awesome. I have used 3 Java IDEs - VAJ, JBuiler, and MS Visual J++. VJ++ simply stinks, so I will not waste time on it. JBuilder is nice, but doesn't do anything special. IBM VAJ gives you a VERY nice GUI builder which requires NO programming to create a fully functional program, is by far the most OO environment, has an awesome debugger, and is available on more platforms than any other IDE (Win32, Linux, OS/2, OS/390, AIX, etc.). In the Win32 version they are supposed to have JDK 1.2 support, but I don't think that happened in the Linux version.