> A sane culture would produce couple of simple libraries solving different requirements. Insane would throw solutions to all the requirements and a kitchen sin

> A sane culture would produce couple of simple libraries solving different requirements. Insane would throw solutions to all the requirements and a kitchen sink into one big ball of mud mega-library. Even Spring doesn't do this. Most Java libraries and frameworks are highly modularized via Maven. Most complain they are too modularized and want an uber jar. > It's not that hard to write a JSON parser. Actually it really is [1]. You know a valid one that handles edge cases... something a lot of Java libraries do really well... handling edge cases requires complexity. [1]: http://seriot.ch/parsing_json.php http://seriot.ch/parsing_json.php