Exactly this.
Had to stand-up a server in Java recently.
At some point I realized I was doing more programming via XML files and Spring decorators than via actual Java code. Mostly because Java itself isn't a great abstraction for a CRUD server.
Had to stand-up a server in Java recently.
At some point I realized I was doing more programming via XML files and Spring decorators than via actual Java code. Mostly because Java itself isn't a great abstraction for a CRUD server.
I haven't touched XML for nearly a decade as a full-time Java developer.
BUT I have to say, every project using gradle as alternative so far has receded into bizarre ad-hoc deployment scripting. Maybe that's just because gradle can do stuff that was hidden away in jenkins build files, but still ...
Predictably, the team therefore used both.
I usually enjoy Spark[1] for bootstrapping a simple REST-like interface. There are other options, but in general, you don't really need glue-languages at all if you stray away from old-fashioned EE-style frameworks.