Sure, maybe. I've found Java much easier to deal with when I do everything from scratch instead of letting Eclipse handle it. (This basically means setting up Tomcat myself, making an Ant file to build everything, and then editing it all in emacs.)

Java is still unpleasant either way. What takes ten files in Java would be ten lines in any other (real) language. Also, the standard library is horribly, horribly designed. If you read the implementation, you'll see it's clear that nobody writing it has any idea what OOP is, which makes me very very sad. Anyway, this idiotic design makes writing Java even more difficult, IDE or not :)

Hopefully I will never have to write Java again.