[glogla]

Wow.

This makes me thing that Java is better for this kind of big "enterprise" application, not because it's faster or more enterprise or somesuch, but because it's more limited, and therefore less things can go wrong.

I worked in two banks, developing web banking in one and middleware service in the other, and while there were some strange things (what's with banks and XML, really?) there was nothing that terrible here.

But then I'm pretty sure that someone will share their Java horror story.

[mirsadm]

I could write a book about how bad everything was set up :). This place loved to abuse XML. It had > 2000 XML files to configure the system. Objects in code were "generic" and instantiated based on XML configuration. You could inherit configuration from base XML files. It was basically impossible to determine where a piece of the system was set up from.

As bad as everything was it was a fantastic learning experience for me though.