[bartonfink]

But that's more a concern about Java than the IDE. You can type code character-by-character into Eclipse as well as you can in vim as well as you can in any plain text editor. If you're going to use an IDE, I know that Eclipse is the industry standard, but it's far from the only choice. I've used paid plugin packages (MyEclipse and IBM's RAD) and found them unstable and buggy. I stick with vanilla Eclipse if I have any choice.

I've heard good things about IDEA, but I've never done more than relatively simple work with it and can't speak to its benefits over Eclipse or any other IDE.