12 Tools a Java Professional Must Have

Every java professionals have a set of tools on their arsenal in order to survive day to day office challenges. Over the years of being a java professional, I am pretty sue you must already have a list of software that you are comfortable to work with and can easily accomplish a given task. The tools I am presenting on this article are the one proven to get the job done efficiently.

Let’s take a look one real life scenario, you are required to edit an xml because of some ParseException problem, you might use xmlparser  or notepad++ to accomplish this. Well some die hard programmer might argue, I don’t need additional software to do that, all I need  is a notepad and that’s it I can easily debug that. All I could say is, “Yeah! maybe you are efficient in using that notepad, but for me I better use xmlparse or I will die trying to figure out where is the missing closing tag”. The truth, is we might be having a different ways in accomplishing things but the most important thing to consider is how fast and how efficient you are in accomplishing your task. The more efficient and effective we are, the more we got recognized by our boss. Ideally, the more we got recognized the faster we will be promote. Some might argue, that would not always be the case but <insert some bad office politics here>. Lets leave office politics on this discussion because I might end up writing a book here.


Moving on, the following is the list of software that I have on my arsenal and proven to be useful and I want to share it to you and compare it to your list if you are already have one. For those guys who are new in development, this document is will serve as a guide on selecting the software that you will be needing. Better take a look on these list and familiarize with it. I would like to emphasize that these are not tools only for java development nor its built in java but rather the following are the list of tools to become an effective java professional.

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