Vocation in the Valley

Java/J2EE is Boring

Java, and more specifically J2EE, is boring. Yes, I make a living doing this stuff and it has become mind-numbing. If you’re in a domain you enjoy then it can be palatable, but the technology itself is a snooze. Struts/JSF, blah! So much code and configuration just to make a form. WebLogic, WebSphere, JBoss, JOnAS, etc. (gotta have more than 1 capital letter). Feels like DEC to me. Keep moving to the high-end while PHP, Python, and Ruby eat up the low-end. (Read Clayton Christianson’s “The Innovator’s Dilemma”) Web services, SOA, ebXML, can anyone say C.O.R.B.A.

I have 6 Java related RSS feeds and I haven’t been interested in a single posting in over a month. I cut that number to 6 after I finding most of the other feeds to be uninteresting. In a couple of weeks I’m going to kill
those 6 if I still haven’t seen anything interesting.

The thing is, I can do my job and do it well without keeping up with the latest J2EE fluff. At work, we’re still using 1.4.x and even need to support 1.3.x in some cases. It’s still a good tool to solve some problems, but the problems better be cool, because the tool isn’t.

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