[masijade]

That I think, is part of the problem (either in our misunderstanding or your learning, if you immediately started with this). I have no problem, what-so-ever with learning all of the extraneous stuff while on the IDE. I am speaking of core Java, and the basic command line tools (those are all you ever really need, anyway, everything is possible with those alone). Bye core Java I mean the lang and basic parts of some of the other packages (i.e. io, util, not nio or anything javax). Once you are past this, and have a grasp of the working "structural" parts of the language, by all means, advance to an IDE.

If you started out by immediately attempting to learn all these frameworks and the like, then, IMHO, you were led astray. Either by yourself, or by someone who advised you. Once you have a good grasp of the basics, and the command tools (as outlined above), the rest of this comes (well I won't say easy, but you get the picture).