...which works great until you have to rename a field with the name 'value' in one particular highly-used class in a system with ten-thousand classes, many of which will also have fields named 'value'. That's where actual IDE knowledge of the language semantics is more or less required, to be able to track the actual object being referenced based on the particular imports, inheritance hierarchy, etc.
Well, one way to do it would simply be to rename the field, then make/ant/maven, and then visit the error lines, especially if you can feed the compiler error messages back into your editor to auto-navigate. Not instant, but not intolerable.
