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Exactly. The hard part of Java is not the language per se, but the myriad of IDEs and XML configuration files.

To be honest, as a Java veteran, there is very little XML any more apart from a bit of Tomcat config usually. It's all gone in favor of annotations which are much better.

It ain't J2EE 1.4 days any more (thank fuck).

The only thing I've done involving XML recently was setting tomcat 7 to serve a war file from the root site and that took about 2 minutes to work out.

I haven't used an XML config file in literally years. Either use embedded Jetty directly or use a nice thin wrapper like DropWizard.

Is there any language this is not true of?

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