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It is a mess, but still megaparsecs ahead of how Sun named their Java related stuff.

J-whatever, beans, enterprise beans... most frustrating naming schemes ever.

You would type the letter J 100,000 times per day.

Whenever I see some Spring Boot, I see the name Beans brought up. Still have no idea what it means, but I do find it odd to name software things after seeds. I thought we already used Seed to mean .. Seed? Is Bean the same as Seed? Is it something else? Why not then legume, or pea?

Coffee beans.

Because coffee beans

and specifically their relationship to "java" (coffee)

Because java means a cup of coffee, and beans are also part of the coffee theme.

And a "eclipse" messes with the "sun".

Oh wow I'd never thought about the "block out the sun" naming for Eclipse. Fantastic.

Some say it's an urban legend and it has been debunked. Who knows.

I don’t think the naming itself is the point of the joke.

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