Seems like this guy has not touched Java for the last 10 years, this Java 10 is much more modern and there are many robust and light weight frameworks now that

Seems like this guy has not touched Java for the last 10 years, this Java 10 is much more modern and there are many robust and light weight frameworks now that make web development (Java EE) a breeze. You can even write Node.JS code within Java using Graal VM.