File and method navigation in vim

Question

I've worked mostly in NetBeans and had to switch to vim for this one project and was wondering if there is an easy way to get file and method navigation working on vim. On Netbeans (and probably every decent IDE) you can have pane open which lists all the files associated with the current project and all the methods in the current file so that you can jump around in your code quickly instead of having to waste time scrolling through it. I was wondering if there is a way to add this feature to vim, it would make my life so much easier.

Answer 1

I use NerdTree (mentioned by George) for filesystem navigation and taglist for methods/classes navigation.