People who were born with 'Eclipse' in their hand may not be able to appreciate the woes of a programmer trying to be productive with 'Edit Plus' or 'vim'. Many managers grossly under-estimate the productivity gains that can be had by using the right IDE. Not only that, development productivity for many current technologies can be improved significantly if their IDEs see significant improvement.
If you do not mind spending, go ahead and buy 'Idea'. If you are broke, 'Net Beans' would make a very good choice. I know a lot of people would be screaming 'Eclipse' by this point of time. 'Eclipse' is, no doubt, the IDE with greatest potential. But if you are developing a web application, want to get up-to-speed asap and integrated with most of the needed Java and J2EE technologies for the project(Maven, Subversion, Database, Servers, Messaging etc.) in no time, I would recommend 'Net Beans'. If you value super customization over speed, 'Eclipse' is your baby. Eclipse can also serve as a fabulous starting point for anybody who wants to develop an IDE.
The tricky bit will come into play if you wish to develop a rich internet application. This would certainly need either JavaScript or Flex. Personally, I feel that there is no IDE that effectively addresses this problem of building a super-efficient dashboard on top of a Java based backend. In this case I would recommend using Eclipse because the Flex IDE is built on top of Eclipse. You may even use Net Beans and Eclipse in conjunction while you take time to configure Eclipse to do the complete bidding.
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