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Message: [QUOTE="Tim Tyler, post: 617304"] IMO, Eclipse's compiler knocks spots off every other Java compiler I've ever seen. One of the the best things is that it *actually* knows which class files need recompiling to leave your project in a consitent state. Also it has a number of built-in lint like tools - so even before you have installed Checkstyle in Eclipse, it produces much more helpful output than most other IDEs can manage. ....and that's just the tip of the huge Eclipse refacoring iceberg: Highlight a block of code and choose "Refactor->extract method" - and watch as Eclipse figures out what return type you need, and all the relevant method parameters and their names - and basically does everything for you. ....or highlight an expression and turn it into a local variable - and watch as Eclipse finds all the equivalent occurrences of that expression in scope and converts them to the new variable automatically. [/QUOTE]