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by hansvm23 hours ago |
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upvoteby mrkeen22 hours ago|
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Yes, when I started getting into Spring(Boot?) in 2013-14 I was complaining about the annotation magic that you needed to sprinkle around the code, so that you could have a Java project take a long time to start up and fall over. The response at the time was that it was so much better than the old XML way that you "had" to do. So that kind of XML hasn't been needed for 10+ years.

Unless you count the XML dependency management with Maven, which isn't too bad.

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upvoteby drdec22 hours ago|
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You can use annotations to get rid of a lot of XML in server side Java. See Spring Boot for example.
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upvoteby traceroute6623 hours ago|
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> Has that actually changed in some part of the industry?

I suspect the only thing that's changed is that Oracle now charge you for the pleasure. ;)

More seriously though, its been a long time since I've touched Java, but I suspect the only thing that's changed is that its all hidden in magical kubernetes containers these days.

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upvoteby a5772121 hours ago|
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Not sure if you know what you are talking about? Most users of Java don't pay anything to Oracle. Many things have changed in the Java world. Kubernetes doesn't have any special relation to Java.
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upvoteby traceroute6620 hours ago|
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> Not sure if you know what you are talking about? Most users of Java don't pay anything to Oracle.

Congratulations Java Fan on missing BOTH the smily-face at the end of the first phrase AND the "More seriously though" at the start of the second.

I'm glad someone still loves Java though. ;)

P.S. The kubernetes reference was – since that one appears to have gone over the top of your head too – that in todays world Kubernetes is extraordinarily popular and therefore it is likely most people now hide the complexities of Java deployment into a container that is magically generated and deployed through CI/CD. Hence I was inferring that life is probably "easier" today with Java because you just deploy the magical container.

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upvoteby a5772119 hours ago|
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Congratulations for posting your humorous hot takes on something you haven't touched in 10-15 years.
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