He should have left out that "exactly". The main point is something he highlights at the beginning, J2EE was the triumph of configuration over convention, it ha

He should have left out that "exactly". The main point is something he highlights at the beginning, J2EE was the triumph of configuration over convention, it had a lot of xml descriptors and interfaces/utility classes to be implemented (this caused by the some architectural decisions that remind me of CORBA). This stuff was usually auto-generated but you still often had to tweak these file manually. The polar opposite of modern web frameworks.