Recommend a (free) Java IDE

[Spud1]

pico and your fav compiler

who needs fancy things like jbuilder when theres a perfectly good one on my shell

Or in windows ive always used jbuilder personal, free to use and not too heavyweight, it serves my purpose but i still prefer pico

[javalord]

Jcreator and Jbuilder. Although mainly the first if you actually want to learn proper Java syntax. BlueJ is useful intially for the idea of object orientated programming. After that, its not as impressive.

[Purple]

Purple agrees with javalord

[yamangman]

Eclipse of course goes without saying for free IDE's. I thought everyone who knew anything about programming would've heard of it.

[PanzerKnight]

Really rate NetBeans myself

[atomicjeep]

http://www.jedit.org

+ Plenty of free plugins to add missing functionality :-)

[Kezzer]

TextPad isn't free but it's unlimited trial and no annoying things saying trial period only

[Stoo]

Textpad is really quite nice, I'm using it for asp dev at the moment (depite the fact that the colour coding goes a bit iffy now and again..)

[Hades]

Eclipse

...I use IBM's Websphere daily at work and it's based on Eclipse. An excellent product and very configurable due to its plugin argitechture (actually, WebSshere Studio is simply Eclipse with IBM's J2EE plugins added).