I am using Eclipse for my development.

I find Findbugs really useful ++++

We used Scriptella to move select data from a Microsoft SQL Server DB to a MySQL DB. It has worked great and was able to handle many complex use cases. It saved us a lot of time. The support from the author is great. I am very impressed.

Intellij IDEA 7.0.3

Just FWIW, Sun has a repository which is compatible with both Maven 1 and Maven 2. You can find information about this repository here:

https://maven-repository.dev.java.net/

But, a better solution is to use the open source implementations of almost all the Java Enterprise APIs from the Apache Geronimo project. You can find these under:

http://repo1.maven.org/maven2/org/apache/geronimo/specs

This group is going to contain everything you need, it has the el API available.

Tim O'Brien
http://www.sonatype.com/book/

NetBeans 6

StackTrace from http://www.adaptj.com for monitoring and production mode debugging.

What is happening in the world of automated deployment tools, approaches, process etc

I think Cobertura is Test Coverage instead of Testing

We use Scriptella ETL to import test data in CSV format. Scriptella is also used to initialize an in-memory database for jUnit tests.

Eclipse

IntelliJ Idea

We are using jTrac to track issues and task at Acclaris (www.acclaris.com). We have offices in Tampa, Kansas City in USA, Kolkata, Vizag and Siliguri in India. With jTrac it is very easy to setup multiple workspaces and define your own customized workflow and custom fields for each workspace. It deploys as a war file.

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We started writing functional tests using HttpUnit and later migrated to jWebUnit. I believe these are worth mentioning in your book.
thanks,
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Most suitable IDE Eclipse 3.3 Europa

I am using Eclipse

JDeveloper - the nicest combination of power yet easy to use. It's like IntelliJ IDEA only faster, more straightforward and free. Eclipse is a bit too non-standard (even if it is very popular). Compare hotkey default mappings: JDeveloper, IDEA and Netbeans share many hotkeys and Eclipse is the odd one out.

I've successfully used Scriptella to migrate from MySQL to DB2 and PostgreSQL. It works fine.

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Eclipse, only Eclipse :-P