Cheap Ware

There is an enormous amount of high quality, easy to use, and inexpensive development tools on the market.

Here are my top picks (and their free equivalents)

1. IntelliJ - the best Java IDE bar none (like eclipse but better)
2. FishEye - put your version control system to work for you (like viewcvs but better)
3. Jira - the defacto standard in bug and issue tracking software (like bugzilla but better)
4. Confluence - enterprise strength collaborative documentation (like a wiki but better)
5. SonicMQ- Light-weight messaging middleware (like activeMQ but better)
6. Clover - code test coverage tool (like emma but better)
7. AntHill, BeetleJuice - continuous integration build servers (like cruisecontrol/damagecontrol)