i am in the process of choosing a java IDE and compiler, and im being very careful. because i know that when i decide on one, i will never want to change. what do you guys use? the debugger is the ...

I'm a junior at Penn State and we started using Java. So far it's pretty interesting even though I'm used to C++. I'm a fairly decent programmer, but there's so much to learn...<BR><BR>Two questions..

Google’s Closure compiler, for optimizing and transpling JavaScript, no longer needs Java to run. Instead, Java source code is compiled to JavaScript so it can run under Node.js or in a browser.