This is all subjective, but I'd include Omnicore Codeguide. IIRC, it was the first Java IDE with near-real-time compilation int he background. It was pretty ama

This is all subjective, but I'd include Omnicore Codeguide. IIRC, it was the first Java IDE with near-real-time compilation int he background. It was pretty amazing. Visual Age for Java was my favorite in the early days, too. ECJ was fast and it had great, fast validation in the IDE too.