Java development tools for Linux (Ubuntu)?

Question

I'm going to college and I will being taking up Computer Science and they teach Programming with Java. And they use Linux.

I'm trying to get a heads up. I dual booted Ubuntu and now I need Java dev tools. Can someone point me in the right direction?

thanks

Answer 1

I'm sure they'll have development tools that are free downloads. I know one Java IDE that is pretty popular is Eclipse.

You can download it here: http://www.eclipse.org/

I would just get it with aptitude though

In Ubuntu:

Either search for it with synaptic or do a "aptitude search eclipse" and then a "sudo apt-get install *name of eclipse deb*"