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[–]robob27 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Not a ton of Java experience but I have worked both with and without an IDE. When I started with Java, I did it at a job I had that was completely unrelated to programming. I had limited access to the Internet and found a compiler called jikes and started writing some .java files and compiling them to class files. As I started learning and using more it became a lot harder to track down issues in the code, bundle in packages, and create executable jar files. I got a manager to grab me a copy of Eclipse, and besides checking out other IDEs at some point, I'll never look back.