avoid XML avoid IDE's -- or at least, anything that causes your team to need an IDE just to counter-act some other linguistic or procedural vomit you often enc

avoid XML avoid IDE's -- or at least, anything that causes your team to need an IDE just to counter-act some other linguistic or procedural vomit you often encounter in the typical Enterprise Java shop avoid abstraction-for-the-sake-of-abstraction -- the Java ecosystem, not necessarily the language, is notorious for this