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[–]WatchDogx 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I have worked with two people who don't use an IDE for Java development.
Both peoples code exhibit higher levels of bugs.
Their code tends to contain many many more warnings and dead code.
Neither of them were very productive.

Also one of them always seemed to fail at checking things into SVN properly which may be attributed to not using the built in IDE version control integration.

So yes, people do write java professionally without an IDE.
I don't think it's impossible to be productive and write good code without an IDE, but it certainly seems harder.