Learning JAVA

After using my mobile and seeing what can be programmed in JAVA I am inspired to learn the JAVA, so a couple of questions.

What is the best free development program to use? Obviously i wan't something simple and something easy to use, something simple with easy compile options. Obviously I need to be able to compile to .jar

any suggestions? :D

jcreator google it

Eclipse it is better than Jcreator at least to me it is.

i've used Jcreator, netbeans, and eclipse. I think its just a personal thing. i prefer Jcreator. If you do goto program your mobile tho, your going to need the JME, (java micro edition) in opposed to the normal JRE that you use to write apps and applets. I've worked with this before so you can pm me if you want some more help with it.

i've used Jcreator, netbeans, and eclipse. I think its just a personal thing. i prefer Jcreator. If you do goto program your mobile tho, your going to need the JME, (java micro edition) in opposed to the normal JRE that you use to write apps and applets. I've worked with this before so you can pm me if you want some more help with it.

do any of the above mentioned programs support JME? :right:

What is the difference between JME and JRE, or is it just got less functions.

they all support it. The difference is ME(micro edition) is made for the smaller devices like cell phones. I know how to set it up with JCreator. Probably similar for the rest. You just need to download it from Sun and point your IDE at it.