"Java ca. 2001 style" also seemed to include using every feature of J2EE even if it wasn't remotely relevant.

Crazy files of constants seemed to feature a lot as well:

   public final static string HTTP = "HTTP";
   public final static string COLON = ":";
   public final static string SLASH = "/";

and then the inevitable:

   string url = HTTP + COLON + SLASH + SLASH....;

[I did think about posting it to the DailyWTF at the time but thought that might be bad form when you are the lone contractor trying to rescue the project.]