> Coming from the J2EE universe it was like the true essence of web development had been hidden from us with servlets, JSPs, wars and ears. 20 years ago, Java

> Coming from the J2EE universe it was like the true essence of web development had been hidden from us with servlets, JSPs, wars and ears. 20 years ago, Java development wasn't that complicated. Big consultancy came in and complexified the ecoystem just for the sake making the entry level way too high. A Rails developer only needs to know Rails and Active record and maybe Capistrano and some server. A Java developer has to know Servlets, Glassfish, Tomcat and other containers, JSP,JNDI,EL, JSTL, JSF, JDBC, JPA, CDI, EJB, Hibernate, Spring, Maven, Gradle and God knows what to find a job. For a beginner, the documentation is also all over the place. Java the language is improving sure, but some people are still stuck with maintaining struts applications to this day, with tons of XML files...