But that's the thing with Java, yes there are libraries for everything and one could see that as a problem actually.
Spring was mentioned before, but it's the perfect example of an overengineered/ heavy library that does a lot of black magic.
Just the other day I ran across an issue where spring was wiring things up correctly on Linux but not Windows.
The pagination object is bulky and unnecessarily complex, where a simple offset/limit is enough (and a nextUrl for cursor-based access).
When we looked into cluster locks, they’re not even released if one node goes down. I mean, who would need a lock implementation that just stores a line in a DB? And the doc doesn’t even warn about it.
Apache contributors were much better-skilled.
Apache contributors were much better-skilled.