What about when you're working with Java? Do you still use emacs?

I don't generally work with Java, but I reexamined Eclipse when playing around with Android apps. I find that it still gets in my way, but at least this time around I had enough RAM to run it well.

I use vim with Java. It works great - I don't believe that an IDE should ever be a requirement for writing good code. If this is the case, the language fucked up.

Absolutely. Emacs, ant, and unix command line tools work just fine for java development.