Originally posted by Khirmint
I've used a Java library written by IBM called Eclipse.. basically an alternative to Swing. It was fast (admittedly, it cheated by using native system calls, something Java didn't because it limited systems it would run on), looked like the OS in question, and it was easy and fast to develop with.
My shop is moving in the direction of Eclipse/Websphere being the primary development environment and I just finished a course using Websphere for application development. I like it alot. With respect to the java servlets that I worked with (fairly small and not at all complex), I didn't encounter a problem with running the servlets, just a huge time difference in comparison with initial load time. After initial load, subsequent calls to java servlets are pretty quick.