I'm still evaluating Eclipse 3.0 to see if I could imagine switching from IntelliJ IDEA to Eclipse. Overall, I'm still pretty impressed with Eclipse, with the exception of a few shortcomings I mentioned before. Another important feature that Eclipse lacks out of the box is support for XML editing....
EclipseME is an Eclipse plugin for J2ME development. I have not installed it yet, but it sounds well worth checking out....
Javalobby has launched a very useful new site: JDocs.com. JDocs offers easy access to Javadocs for many widely used APIs, including the JDK, XML APIs such as Xalan, Xerces, JDom, Castor, and JiBX, frameworks such as Struts, utility APIs such as the Apache Commons APIs, and many others. Currently, about 50 APIs are covered on JDocs, but there are plans of extending this number to 100 or even 150 soon....
An introductory article on the Groovy language has been posted at IBM's developerWorks website. I have only skimmed it briefly so far, but I definitely need to take a closer look at this article as well as at Groovy in general. Groovy is a dynamic language that runs on the JVM....
I took a look at Eclipse 3.0 over the weekend, and I have to say that I'm pretty impressed. I have been using IntelliJ IDEA for several years now, and I am a big fan of this IDE. At the same time, I love open source tools and am always happy to try something new....