Some of your complaints are definitely right. A lot of factory-mill certified Java programmers go crazy with XML, factory-pattern, and other enterprisey stuff.
But there are two things I can't let slide:
1) Maven fixes a lot of the project-setup, build configuration, and package management issues. It's not perfect, but it makes a lot of things much, much easier.
2) "That most Java libraries don't seem to be able to provide a simple example." Oh, please. Sinatra and some of the other gems do have amazing examples. But half of Ruby's stdlib has no documentation at all. Hell, things like rss use so much fanciness that there aren't even methods!
But there are two things I can't let slide:
1) Maven fixes a lot of the project-setup, build configuration, and package management issues. It's not perfect, but it makes a lot of things much, much easier.
2) "That most Java libraries don't seem to be able to provide a simple example." Oh, please. Sinatra and some of the other gems do have amazing examples. But half of Ruby's stdlib has no documentation at all. Hell, things like rss use so much fanciness that there aren't even methods!