When I last did serious java development, the eclipse ide hadn’t come on the scene. VisualAge was so buggy it crashed all the time, so I gave up on java ide’s altogether and got emacs with etags to the point that it didn’t matter. Coming from a C/C++ background, I was used to running gdb in a shell in emacs, so that is what I did with jdb at that time. Things are different now. Eclipse seems like