Looking for a Popular IDE for JAVA

Hi folks,
I am starting my journey into JAVA programming -I am wondering if there are any cheap or free Integrated Development Environment (IDE) for compiling and running Java programs. I downloaded SDK (Software development kit ,version 1.2) and I am finding it rather painful to run the commands manually to compile and run Java programs. Any help would be greatly appreciated
I also downloaded Jbuilder(university edition) from the book Java -how to program ,third edition by Deitel and Deitel -had some problems with it and unfortunately discovered that it is for Windows 95 and NT while I have windows 98

Hi folks,
I am starting my journey into JAVA programming Great. That's nice to hear. :)
-I am
wondering if there are any cheap or free Integrated
Development Environment (IDE) for compiling and
running Java programs. Lucky for you therer is :) .
I downloaded SDK (Software development kit ,version 1.2) and I am finding it
rather painful to run the commands manually to compile
and run Java programs. Any help would be greatly
appreciatedHeh, I hated command line programming, especially from the dos prompt on
windos platform.
>
I also downloaded Jbuilder(university edition) from
the book Java -how to program ,third edition by Deitel
and Deitel -had some problems with it and
unfortunately discovered that it is for Windows 95 and
NT while I have windows 98I'd recommend a few others.
1) Netbeans, at http://www.netbeans.org
2) Forte for Java, http://www.sun.com ; poke around to find it.
3) JAWA. The address(& the spelling) fails me.
I'd personally recommend 1&2, it runs on most platforms, its packs quite a lot of features. But it is quite resoure hungry and you do need a lot of memory. About > 256 .
I have not used the third one, but quite a few people here seem to like it.
There is another one in development, http://www.eclipse.org , seems to be bankrolled by IBM.

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[Ideas for student projects|http://www.mindprod.com/projects/projects.html].
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