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hillbillybob · 11-30-2006, 11:53 AM

Eclipse is not just an IDE, it is also a framework, much like springboard and .NET.

Also, VS would work as and editor for java files...but I digress.

Yes, Eclipse is very popular with the OSS community, for good reason, but if your just starting out with java, I would suggest getting the bundled package from sun.com. It's the sdk, documentation, and the Netbeans IDE. Netbeans is good in it's own right.

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