| ▲ | hansvm an hour ago | |
Wait a second, in very recent years the major Java projects I touched were still messing around with incomprehensible XML config files. Has that actually changed in some part of the industry? | ||
| ▲ | drdec 37 minutes ago | parent | next [-] | |
You can use annotations to get rid of a lot of XML in server side Java. See Spring Boot for example. | ||
| ▲ | mrkeen 26 minutes ago | parent | prev | next [-] | |
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. | ||
| ▲ | traceroute66 an hour ago | parent | prev [-] | |
> 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. | ||