Over the last few years I have developed templates/scaffolding for my Java projects based on my typical Java usage for small projects. It is mainly inspired by Go and I fear hopelessly outdated. It does not use maven/gradle or any latest Java functional patterns etc. I have an ant build, bash scripts and few Java files.

This whole setup helped me develop surprisingly large number of useful tools and apps which proved successful enough that snippets of my code and pattern are copied in proper 'enterprise class' projects at our company.