… or organizational culture? A lot of places really wanted to believe the problem was the technology because that's relatively much easier to change than going to a bunch of very senior managers and telling them that the way they're used to doing business is too expensive to continue.
Nice. It may be the best way to organize project this large. I know this is maven thing and once using everyone's favorite Intellij IDEA it should not matter but I personally find ~1000 directories for ~4000 files a kind of Javasim.
I believe its more because companies that have "enterprise apps" culture embraced java more, rather than it being the fault of Java itself. I've seen first-hand when these companies have "enterprisified" C++, C# and heck, even PHP
I do think Java the language has a long way to go, but it is catching up a bit. I see it as the least common denominator language for most companies. Large open source java projects have been successful (everything on hadoop, hbase, cassandra etc) and a lot less enterprisey.