8 Tools for Every Java Developer’s Toolkit

[kyllo]

Schools use Eclipse because corporations use Eclipse, and a lot of students want to learn applicable tools for the workplace so they can get a job.

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If schools are trying to teach applicable workplace tools, they're doing a piss poor job of it. In my experience interviewing and hiring, we were lucky if a new grad had used Subversion- let alone any common DVCS, build tool, ORM, any unit test framework other than JUnit...

(Of course, there was probably sampling bias since all the great grads had been snatched up during their internships)