Development decision question

Hello all,
I'm a several years professional in the IT industry who, until recently, has been primarily focused on systems work (tech support, workstation/server admin, etc). My current position however is beginning to add some development duties and I was hoping to get some advice for our current situation.
In the coming year, we will be implementing an updated version of a fairly complex software package we currently support. This new version will be a J2EE compliant application, likely run on Tomcat, which utilizes JSF. There will be some need to extend this application, which is where I need some advice.
Most of our "extensions" will likely fall into the realm of online reports, pulling data from an Oracle database (likely 10g when we upgrade) and putting the data into table form, probably will some totaling functionality. There will also be some need to have forms that add data to the system as well.
I've been researching a number of technologies and IDE's and would love to get some advice on what folks out there think would provide the quickest learning curve. The application will support BIRT (part of the Eclipse project used for creating web reports) and it looks like it will handle some of our needs, but it's still pretty young. I've also reviewed the following IDE's: Java Studio Creator, NetBeans, Eclipse, and JDeveloper. For reasons of cost (and others), we likely would not use Crystal for doing reports.
What i'm really looking for is 2 things:
1. What tool (or tools) would be the best to use for a rookie developer to allow me to handle our needs?
2. Any advice on getting myself up to speed on Jaava, especially J2EE so that I can expand my options for #1. I do understand the basics of programming (took a few courses in college and have helped to debug some sctips in other jobs).
Thanks for any help.

What i'm really looking for is 2 things:
1. What tool (or tools) would be the best to use for
a rookie developer to allow me to handle our needs?I would have suggested using Business Objects/Crystal reports but since cost is an issue you might want to look at some open source stuff. AGin from an IDE perspective, considering that cost would be an issue there too, I would suggest using Eclipse.
2. Any advice on getting myself up to speed on
Jaava, especially J2EE so that I can expand my
options for #1. I do understand the basics of
programming (took a few courses in college and have
helped to debug some sctips in other jobs).\Start wih some tutorials from Google.
Check Steve McConnell's "Code complete"
Martin Fowler's "refactoring"
These two books would greatly help from a semantics perspective. For syntax again refer to google.
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Thanks for any help.

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