Yours is a very niche case where you built an application that is perhaps used by other applications downstream.
The author's gripes are mostly with the day-to-day java web application development that is being done in large firms (which I could even believe is the majority of Java development work).
The author's gripes are mostly with the day-to-day java web application development that is being done in large firms (which I could even believe is the majority of Java development work).