- JRebel or Spring Loaded - Groovy is nice and still very similar to Java(no learning curve)when you want syntactic sugar like LINQ or JDBC SQL without all the

- JRebel or Spring Loaded - Groovy is nice and still very similar to Java(no learning curve)when you want syntactic sugar like LINQ or JDBC SQL without all the boilerplate code. - IntelliJ Idea is similar to Visual Studio + Resharper. But the biggest reason to start using Java is its extremely mature and rich ecosystem! I'm currently doing software development on Windows with C#.Net and Visual Studio without ReSharper and I really miss Linux, Java and IntelliJ Idea :(