Resources
The most important tools every Java developer needs are listed below.
Spring Tool Suite™
The Spring Tool Suite is an Eclipse-based development environment that is customized for developing Spring applications. It provides a ready-to-use environment to implement, debug, run, and deploy your Spring applications, including integrations for Pivotal tc Server, Pivotal Cloud Foundry, Git, Maven, AspectJ, and more.
Hibernate
Hibernate framework simplifies the development of java application to interact with the database.Hibernate is an open source, lightweight, ORM (Object Relational Mapping) tool. An ORM tool simplifies the data creation, data manipulation and data access.
Notepad + +
Notepad++ is a free source code editor and Notepad replacement that supports several languages. Running in the MS Windows environment, its use is governed by GPL License.
SourceTree
SourceTree simplifies how you interact with your Git and Mercurial repositories so you can focus on coding. Visualize and manage your repositories through SourceTree's simple interface
Coders Campus Blog & Podcast
Tons of valuable educational information is always available on the Coders Campus site.