Skynetchris -- just in case you are not kidding -- Yes the JDE gives you everything you need, if your program is one or two files. Actually I did a test program with about 5 files (5 classes) and everything went well.
Using the debugger in the JDE is actually better (faster, more responsive and no strange things happening) than using the debugger from Eclipse. But my program has over 200 files right now. The JDE is totally unusable at that size.
You can't find all references to a variable, method, or class. You can't do effective searches. The JDE does have limited completion (pops up the methods in a class) but nothing like the features in the Eclipse. Try writing code in Eclipse for a while and you'll never go back to the JDE.
To be fair, I have not tried the latest JDE. Maybe it has tons of new features. I'll have to take a look at it, at some point. Of course Eclipse also has a newer version out too.
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