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Seconded. Even bare Java EE development hardly needs XML configuration anymore, since about EE 7 (maybe 6?).

At least with my work Java EE 6 and WebSphere 8 brought pretty decent annotation support. WebSphere Liberty looked pretty nice from the little I used it, but that was several years ago.

It has been started with Java 1.5/5, 14 years ago.

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