.
If you are a user of any of the above tools, come share your knowledge with the group. If you are curious what the heck Arun and Scott are excited about you can try out Idea at http://www.intellij.com/idea and ANT at http://ant.apache.org/. They are convinced after using these tools, you will not want to program in Java any other way. For a background of why you would want to use these tools, please read http://www.martinfowler.com/articles/refactoringRubicon.html. To know more about refactoring, you can peruse http://www.refactoring.com
Scott Sirovy has over ten years of programming
experience and has worked exclusively in Java for the
last three and a half years. He has designed and
constructed distributed applications working in
business logic and GUI development. Scott has studied
design patterns, OO technologies and tools, and has led
development teams for many companies in the twin cities
area. He currently works for a hedge fund where he
helps develop proprietary stock trading systems. You
can reach Scott at .
Arun Batchu is a Java bigot and is obsessed with
increasing human productivity via tools. He works with
an agile development team at Terago communications and
is responsible for providing technological direction in
the Human Computer Interface division. You can reach
Arun at 
.
IDEA and ANT References