Any "sweet" JAVA development packages out there?

[evac-q8r]

I'm trying to develop a nice data acquisition package using JAVA. Can anybody recommend any packages or websites that display package examples with very good documentation and tutorials as such. I have been exploring ECLIPSE for JAVA but can't really understand it's use. I may need to start off with something a little more novice.

Thanks a Million,

EVAC

[aNoob]

Eclipse is very nice.I use it most of the time, although lately it shares first place on my machine with Netbeans (http://www.netbeans.org/)

Is true that Eclipse plugins are somehow harder to make them work (personally I know few of them I never managed to make them work,but maybe I am just stupid)

Here are some links that may help you :

http://www.java2s.com/
http://www.javapractices.com/index.cjp

[Jata]

Try this:

http://developers.sun.com/prodtech/javatools/free/

I personally have been using netbeans but plan to try this as soon as I can.
I'd also recommend looking at the java tutorials on sun's website. They're pretty comprehensive.

[evac-q8r]

I just wanted to mention that I appreciated both of your suggestions. I will look into both of them.

Thanks a Million,

EVAC

[dr_te_z]

Take a look at this: http://www.jgoodies.com/

[CaptainPinko]

I heartily recommend NetBeans. Assuming by packages you mean IDEs (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Integrated_development_environment). If you do mean packages then the Apache project (http://www.apache.org) has quite a few good ones including Batik (http://xml.apache.org/batik/index.html), Xerces (http://xerces.apache.org/), and Xalan (http://xml.apache.org/xalan-j/). Also Groovy (http://groovy.codehaus.org/) is a cool compile-to-JVM project. As well if you are looking for embedable scripting languages I compiled a nice list __somewhere__ on here.... like here (http://justlinux.com/forum/showthread.php?t=133444).