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> they are building pyramids while other languages are building stuff out of bricks

Pyramids are engineering feats, Java EE people are building stuff which look like works from M. C. Escher, it bends your mind when you try to understand the code :)

Also a little anecdote to the complexity of enterprise stuff: at the company I worked before, they were writing an entire persistence framework from scratch (with annotations instead of xml) so they could get away from hibernate.

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Also well known as the Enterprise Software Engineer Employment Guarantee Scheme

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> they were writing an entire persistence framework from scratch (with annotations instead of xml) so they could get away from hibernate.

As opposed to using MyBatis or JDBI? What was their rationale for rolling their own, too many employees on the team?