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Switch to IntelliJ:

http://www.jetbrains.com/idea/index.html

I even prefer Netbeans to Eclipse.

http://netbeans.org

There are 3 fully featured Java IDE's. You have only tried one of them.

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Coming from VS I love netbeans for writing Rails code in.

I became very spoiled by Visual Studio's ability to let you explore libraries via intellisence. Netbeans is the only Ruby IDE I've found that comes close to letting you do that.

IDEA does that rather nicely. Its maven support can reduce your box to a paperweight when it reindexes, but other than that, it's a very nice product indeed.

If you're not working on a complex codebase, it is total overkill though.

I don't have much choice for the project I'm on at the moment, we've standardised on Eclipse, but I'll give it a look in the future. Thanks.

Why do you need to "standardise" on a Java IDE? Do you standardise on vi, emacs, or Notepad? Can't developers simply use whichever IDE they prefer, keeping the code formatted in the desired format?

Pair-programming teams often standardize on an IDE, so that when you hand the keyboard to your pair, they don't have to exit your IDE and start up theirs in order to type the next few lines of code. Standardizing on Notepad is a bad idea, because there's no way to enhance it to meet your team needs better.

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