What euain and Mac+ said.
That's kinda what I thought anyway. Most tools at university are cross-platform or at least have compatible alternatives. Make a list of what you need (and describe each thing briefly) and we can help you find their Mac counterparts.
JBuilder Downloads - note that everything but the enterprise and mobile trial is available for Mac OS X.
You'll be
much better off using a native set of tools even if there's a slight learning curve. You'll be kicking yourself all night long if you have to use VPC for work like this. If you're going to spend most of your time in VPC anyway, why bother getting a Mac in the first place? The VPC environment is prone to the same spyware and viruses and crap that regular PCs get. It's essentially a self-contained PC running on your Mac. Though, no, any spyware or viruses or such will
not affect anything else on your Mac, just the VPC environment.