One of the major advantages of moving to a language aware IDE are the refactoring tools! Rename: Alt + Shift + R (utterly invaluable) Extract Local variable:

One of the major advantages of moving to a language aware IDE are the refactoring tools! Rename: Alt + Shift + R (utterly invaluable) Extract Local variable: Alt + Shift + L (Very handy for adding self documentation on complex expressions) Inline: Alt + Shift + I Move: Alt + Shift + V Display Refactoring Context Menu: Alt+Shift+T Another sweet feature I'd like to mention is Mark Occurrences - if find this invaluable for rearranging method bodies. For example, placing declarations closer to usage. You can also distinguish reads and writes by configuring different highlight colours (Preferences->Java->Editor->Mark Occurances->Write Occurances). I love eclipse.