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Thanks for the book tips! These will help after I make my choice.

How about IDEs for each?

Oh man.... the tooling situation....

Eclipse for Java.

Visual Studio for C++ on Windows. Netbeans everywhere else?

I am constantly dissapointed with my tools.

(edit) ViEmu for Visual Studio is excellent. I'm not sure if it's Eclipse or viPlugin for Eclipse, but one of them is laggy.

I was poking at Bloodshed Dev-C++ to test it out. Seems pretty good. Any experience with it?

Never user Java without Eclipse. You will be much productive in Java using Eclipse.