I've always felt that stuff like C++, J2EE, Spring, and super-heavy do-everything-frameworks were meant to make money for their authors through conferences/book

I've always felt that stuff like C++, J2EE, Spring, and super-heavy do-everything-frameworks were meant to make money for their authors through conferences/book sales first. If you actually manage to solve a problem with them, that's just a happy little accident.