Wow, reading through all of that (and how you put it in perspective) felt like I'm waking up from Hibernation (pun intended). Solid advices, thanks a lot!
I think maven in the ecosystem around it is the biggest thing.
maven makes it easy to incorporate 100s of Jars into your projects, but then you get to discover the conflicts between 100s of Jars, create build processes that don't finish before your project is due, etc.
Master maven and then modern Java may seem like a lot of fun!
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Wow, reading through all of that (and how you put it in perspective) felt like I'm waking up from Hibernation (pun intended). Solid advices, thanks a lot!
I think maven in the ecosystem around it is the biggest thing.
maven makes it easy to incorporate 100s of Jars into your projects, but then you get to discover the conflicts between 100s of Jars, create build processes that don't finish before your project is due, etc.
Master maven and then modern Java may seem like a lot of fun!