[Tamerlin]

I use an IDE, and I write clean, tight code. I don't see your point -- part of it is that I have far more important things to do with my life than learn the API, so code completion is a great resource for me when I'm working with 3rd party libraries or Java libraries that I don't use regularly.

Debuggers are another benefit to using an IDE.

Running my app within NetBeans also makes it easier to deploy and launch a web application, so that's another bit of tedium that the IDE alleviates.

For me it's a win-win. It takes care of grunt work, I take care of code.

[axod]

I also hate debuggers. Tried them, don't like them. They're great for when you don't have the source code and need to reverse engineer something, but for finding bugs, I think they're terrible.

Different people like different things though. It sounds like you're doing a very different kind of development than I do - that whole scary J2EE beans webapp enterprisey stuff.

[Tamerlin]

Well, not quite J2EE, but it is Spring based. Spring relies heavily on magic that makes tracing code very difficult without a debugger. It wasn't my choice, and I wouldn't choose it again, but at least it's better than J2EE.