[throw_m239339]

The examples use CDI (dependency injection through annotations) and yes, these annotations become hardwired to the business objects... Java has some kind of traits now through interfaces so it's not much of a problem today.

[mrkeen]

> Java has some kind of traits now through interfaces so it's not much of a problem today.

Well that's the article's premise, right? Opening sentence:

    Java is good by modern standards, from a technical perspective

Later on:

    Java’s culture eschews common sense approaches

> so it's not much of a problem today.

Every Java codebase I've worked on in my career has had plenty of this crap in it. The culture has settled on doing it this way.

[HelloNurse]

Java encourages doing things like they were done 15 years ago because rewriting reams of low-value boilerplate with delicate architectural impacts is neither fun nor (at first sight) valuable.

Typical immature enterprise organizations tend to extend the system with low-risk new features instead of refactoring and remaking old stuff.

[democracy]

What non-java codebases you worked on (of similar magnitude) that didn't have plenty of crap in it?