Java IDEs?

Billy the Mountain asks: "In the startup company I'm in, we just got a new president and she asked us about ways of increasing developer productivity. We develop Java applications, servlets and JSP. I don't use an IDE. I use an enhanced text editor, EditPlus, because I like its color coding of keywords. I guess what I'm asking is what Java IDEs do you use and what features do you like best?" If you were to build a Java IDE from the ground up, what features would you include?

Re:IDE - Editor or round trip engineering tool?

[Dief_76]

Hell, why not do it the easy way?

Write the code, get it up and running, and then reverse engineer it into UML via the Rational Rose tools. Satisfies the Architect-types, and makes you look as though you've stuck to the design outlined by those pretty UML pictures.

Err.. not that I've ever done it that way. Nu-uh, not me.

Re:Blech. Most of them are pretty bad.

[Gen. Ho Lee Phuc]

Did you just recommend emacs because it isn't bloated and doesn't try to do everything?

Dear god...

Re:What makes a good IDE, aka: Netbeans is real cl

[jvmatthe]

I hate this guy as much as all of you combined ;^), but why moderate him as a troll? That's just silly.

THE most important feature of any IDE!

[Quixadhal]

Any programmer knows the most important feature any development environment should have is the free soda fountain, stocked with a variety of caffinated beverages in unending supply.

A nice modular addition is the freezer with various frozen mexican foods, but that isn't as mission critical.