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Sorry, I'm using J2EE when I really meant JavaEE. A lot of message boards and whatnot at the time still called it "J2EE" so that's what I remembered it as. I think the version was 6 at the time?

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Java EE 6 was pretty decent really. It came with JAXRS, CDI, Bean Validation and JSF 2.

I'm sure it's fine once you learn it all, and I'd probably be able to pick it up quicker now since I have a decade more of experience, but my difficulties with it was not for lack of trying on my end. I found a lot of the terminology difficult to work with, and it felt like doing anything required me to touch a million files across a thousand folders.

As I said, I don't really do web stuff anymore; when I need HTTP nowadays I generally want something a bit quicker and lower level than a full-on web framework.

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