These are my personal opinions and feelings that arose from very limited exposure to Java. Whilst I am fairly experienced with C++, the Java world is new for me. Whilst it is very hard to keep an unbiased opinion in such case, I have tried my best. So here, as-is, hands-on, are written my thoughts.
I wouldn't even pick up Java if not for mandatory university classes. I was of course aware of its existence, but it always stayed for far-enough comfort zone I haven't even had to touch. No more running away, though, the situation got real and I have launched the IDE.
I have worked with fairly new NetBeans IDE. AFAIR, it is written in Java and for Java, so I expected at least nice integration (my experiences in coding Python or C++ in NetBeans were at most "Meh."). The project creation is fairly simple, and allows you to choose from variety of targets. I suspect they actually work, contrary to Visual Studio project targets - anything different t