Java development is a pain in the ass

Can't do shit without reading through hundreds of pages of Oracle reference guides, all of which are full of over engineered enterprise crap
XML, XML everywhere
Have fun Ctrl+C Ctrl+Ving XML namespace declarations
Dependency management is completely broken. You can't live without Maven, but Maven will make you hate your life
Classpath resolution is fucking horrid
Spring Framework should be part of the class library
There are 30000 ways of doing the same thing in Eclipse, none of which work intuitively
DisturbinglyLongAndComplexClassNamesWithCatchyKeywordsLikeContextLocalApplicationListenerLoaderFactory

And not a single fuck was given that day.

http://benjismith.net/index.php/2005/09/30/hate-frameworks/
We knew this years ago.