So your issue was with the nature of the language and the size of the project more than the application of DRY? I think I see what you're getting at, but I've

So your issue was with the nature of the language and the size of the project more than the application of DRY? I think I see what you're getting at, but I've certainly also seen very large Java projects that are simple at a high level and composed in such a way that they're still legible without a ton of duplication. These might be somewhat orthogonal concepts.