- The verbosity of Java wears on me very quickly.
- I can't stand working in an IDE.
- Documentation is abysmal.
- I'm not familiar with the ecosystem (so I don't know what to use and when -- What's 'Struts'? What's 'Tiles'?) and there doesn't seem to be a place to learn.
Are you saying this because you mostly work with smaller web apps, or other reasons? For larger projects I find IDE's (especially Eclipse for JAVA indispensable).
The reason I don't like them is that I don't want 90% of what it gives me. My 'IDE' is 1 gvim per project and a terminal app with a couple tabs. I can't think of anything an IDE gives me that I don't a) want or b) already have.