Eclipse rocks..... Apache Cocoon, Axis with Berkeley DBXML kicks the shit out of .NOT for web services any day......
All J2EE of course! You should look into Cocoon if you haven't already, it's got some nice hooks via Avalon components. It now has some amazing feature, full support for XMLForms, has serializers now for just about anything (flash, pdf, xsl, doc.......). The TCO (to borrow M$ spin) is let see, uhm, NOTHING! Oh and onother thing it doesn't break any standards with shit like c#, f# or x# what ever that shit is.
I tend to run on Tomcat/Apache HTTP, another Apache offering (Apache really rock), although I'd like to start using looking into Jboss, Resin and Websphere. Which ever is the quickest most stable beast. Tomcat has come along way though.
Berkeley DB is the most awesome database out there, it has both C and Java API's. It's used in OS X and by many of the mobile networks because it's so resilient it's also so damn quick. And now they have it in XND flavour as well.
J2EE is the way forward!
.NET is .NOT
[ October 24, 2003: Message edited by: Zardoz ]