[krinchan]

Also de-duplicating dependencies is pretty big. For instance, in Java land, I have a project built in Camel, and Camel is deeply in love with the Jackson JSON parser. So I use it there.

On the other hand, I've been learning to use GSON's parser in my Sponge plugin (a Minecraft server) because the SpongAPI dependency pulls that in anyway.

Albeit, both libraries are dead simple to use so it's a bit contrived, but I see a lot of projects that would pull in Spring's RESTTemplate into a Camel project when they've already pulled in CXF or have Apache's HTTPClient readily available via other dependencies.

(And no, URLConnection is terrible. TERRIBLE.)