The thing about Java developers is that some of them are probably seasoned developers. They've been through many projects with scars everywhere. From each proje

The thing about Java developers is that some of them are probably seasoned developers. They've been through many projects with scars everywhere. From each project, they learned something new (not necessarily the best way, but albeit something new). Combine that with the fact that there are people out there who have been through these situations and wrote "best practices". When they build the next system, they will try to use these best practices to avoid their problems they've been through in the past. When this happened, they are already experiencing the second-system syndrome (but they don't realized it). Of course each project differs right?