Hi Jason, I would recommend IntellijIDEA or eclipse. jIDEA is a great development environment and most of development in Apache is done using intellijIDEA since their offering free community license. On the other hand eclipse is a great opensource product that you can afford.
You better get started with eclipse since there are quite a number of articles related to Eclipse+axis2. There are some eclipse plugins related to axis2 to ease your work.You may find more useful artices here[1]. Axis2 uses ant and Maven both. But most of the time its Maven.You better get some idea on these by visiting their respective sites. [2], [3] Axis2 uses svn(subversion) as its version control system.You have to setup the SVN client before you chekout from the trunk.Read the Axis2 docs for more details. Do some googling on SVN. hope this helps, cheers, Pradeep Fernando. [1] http://wso2.org/library/axis2 [2] http://ant.apache.org/ [3] http://maven.apache.org/
