The sad part is that many Java programmers would probably not realise that this is supposed to be a parody, because there are even more ridiculous-looking things in real, "production" Java code:

http://ws.apache.org/xmlrpc/apidocs/org/apache/xmlrpc/server...

http://docs.spring.io/spring-framework/docs/2.5.x/api/org/sp... (this one is somewhat famous - maybe it wins the "most number of design patterns in a class name" award?)

The impression I get whenever I come across code like this is that its authors were more interested in "creating architecture" than solving a real problem - and creating many classes containing short methods whose only function is to create more objects or pass existing ones around is a particularly insidious form of busy-work.

GNU Hello (http://www.gnu.org/software/hello/ ) is basically the same sort of thing done to a Hello World program.