I've been coding lately to keep up on the latest tools. Among the things I'm using... Eclipse is a great IDE. I'm very impressed with the quality of the plugins in particular. I've been using plugins for Perl,Junit, Hibernate, the JFace JDBC client, and more. Also Hibernate in particular deserves some special mention because of all the cool things it does. It's an API and an implementation that allows developers to easily persist Java objects. It's powerful and fast.