It's interesting how they go on about waiting for builds etc. etc. when of course that hasn't been a problem for us for years...
Some people are surprised when we tell them that we don't do "nightly builds" - that there's no need, and little (if any) benefit.
There are still some problems, mainly because Sun's javac compiler doesn't always guess dependencies correctly and you periodically have to do a complete recomplile just to be sure - although we're moving to a new SCM that looks like it'll probably get rid of that problem, which will be very nice.
It's just that console problem isn't it...
Indeed; seems to be the only one that comes up regularly as a "deal breaker" for java in commercial projects...