Development Tools

IDEs

• Eclipse for general Java development,
• NetBeans for Swing development.
• Intellij to just have everything work.
  

Editors

• Gvim
• Notepad++, for Windows
• JEdit is not bad
  

Database

• Sql Squirrel - Database worksheets and grids
• DB Visualizer, free version
  
• Oracle Sql-Developer - Great when working with Stored Procedures
• Tora - Oracle/MySql IDE
  

Merging Tools

• kdiff3 - good for three way merging
  

Source Code Control

• Subversion, http://subversion.tigris.org
  
• Subclipse Eclipse Plugin, http://subclipse.tigris.org
• Svant task for Ant
  
• Tortoise for Windows, http://tortoisesvn.tigris.org/
  
• esvn - Linux Subversion client

WebServices

• SoapUi - Rocks for testing and integration work
• Apache TcpMon for Monitoring
  

Scripting

• Perl Plugin for Eclipse
  
• ShellEd Eclipse plug-in for Bourne Shell scripts
• Eclipse Groovy plug-in

Eclipse Tips & Settings

Exporting Global Settings/Preferences

• File->Export->Preferences

Good Command Line and Environment Options

• -Xms128m
• -Xmx784m
• -XX:MaxPermSize=128m
• -XX:+UseConcMarkSweepGC