I just found Bradley O'Hearne's 10 Reasons to Dump Your Java IDE. Not being a big IDE proponent, I felt justified in reading this article. Even if some of the arguments aren't very strong. Check out the counter-point: 10 Reasons (Not) to Dump Your Java IDE.
My latest frustration with IDEs is they almost always contain substandard editors. What they lack in text manipulation, they partly make up for with code completion and source code browsing. However, I spend most of my time manipulating text. Don't you? I would rather have Emacs hippie expansion to complete previously typed tokens than code completion. Much faster, and can be used more often.
On my last two Java projects, I've had Emacs and Eclipse open side-by-side. I like Eclipse for compiling and fixing errors, the debugger, and for running Junit tests. I like Emacs with JDEE and ECB for editing.
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