By configuring, I don't just mean the IDE. Generally, it's about setting up the project structure, writing your configuration XML, and fetching all the depende

By configuring, I don't just mean the IDE. Generally, it's about setting up the project structure, writing your configuration XML, and fetching all the dependencies libraries. Usually, this involves the writing of Maven or Ant XML files, and generating the project from it. Sometimes, the IDE chokes and you have do it all be hand. Eclipse is notorious for having their plugins conflicting with each other. I switched from Eclipse to IntelliJ for that very reason. A lot of the modern programming languages offers package managers that dramatically improves this process. The only thing that Java has is Maven..and Maven pom files aren't just simple dependency management.