Use JCreator. The new version has things so you can
minimize methods when you're done with them. Then you
can see your other methods. It's freeware, too. Get
the Learning Edition (LE).

who said that the sun compiler is the best???
This is definitely wrong. Take jikes for example.
Much better error checking and so on and so on.

You are the first one that I hear who says that the sun compiler is the
best....

The SUN provides the standards for the JAVA programming
Language, SUN is where JAVA started, so still SUN knows what they are
dealing with!
Yeah jikes provides better error checking and so on and so on, but are
they standards? Providing non-standard extensions, makes the resultant
program unportable. You might know the case with C / C++, where after a
lot of quarrels regarding the extensions, we settled for ISO standards
for doing things.
So in my opinion SUN still provides the best compiler, and will remain
to do so ( at least it will be standard what others will follow )

The compilers don't really change the language at all, though. Java
still comes out with Java itself. The compilers just compile it
(hence why they're called compilers). Use any one you want. They're
usually free anyway.

The best java compiler is still provided by SUN .