I don’t think that is specifically a Java thing, you can find over-engineered code in any place and time. Maybe Java bringing OOP and a large standard library i

I don’t think that is specifically a Java thing, you can find over-engineered code in any place and time. Maybe Java bringing OOP and a large standard library inspired more than its share of this. Having said that, I just did a sting at a Java company with a 20 year old codebase and deleted over 100 useless classes like this in the first 6 months. My favorite was a class that was called “AbstractAbstraction”, I kid you not. It was at the end of a particularly ridiculous string of gratuitously added classes. I don’t think some people realize that when you are at the top of the stack, writing apps, not frameworks, it’s a mistake to spend too much time engineering too much flexibility into the design.