I particularly liked their handling of Java Beans. It not only created the stub code, but even after one filled in the blanks, the IDE could continue to modify the code using the GUI (e.g. connect different beans). Other IDEs at that time allowed you to only create the stub code and once you manually modified it, they were unable to assist you further.

Seems others didn't quite appreciate this "visual programming" as much and the idea died out.

Beg to differ, Symantec Visual Cafe was way better.

Possible, I never heard of it until now. How was it for server side development?

Server side development was all I did and at the time it was the best ide in my opinion.

It was based on their previous VisualAge for Smalltalk product, which was a really amazing and solid product as well.

Omnicore CodeGuide IDE was much better.