Yeah, Java can be bad, but thats more the old school enterprise frameworks. A lot of newer things in Java are much simpler and easier to use. You can be very s

Yeah, Java can be bad, but thats more the old school enterprise frameworks. A lot of newer things in Java are much simpler and easier to use. You can be very successful building out your own framework using things like Guice, Guava, and Dropwizard. It lets you pull in what you want and leave out the things you don't need.