I just did a three month enterprise Java project. I admit that I hadn't used it in a while, so I picked Spring like in the old days (+Hibernate at first, but had to kick it out eventually). And hell it turned out complicated (even with Spring). What is the new mantra that makes Java suddenly usable? Playframework?
It doesn't look like you're interesting in anything except following your own mantra of "Java suxx", but XML configuration files (which were never really about working around the type system) have been almost universally replaced by annotations.
How so? I've only ever seen them eliminate external configuration files. Hell, thanks to annotations and some simplifications to the standard, EJBs have turned from the epitome of overengineered bloat into a simple, lean service layer.
