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Re:Generating a Java program with 90% less code by MichaelMoser123 on Wednesday December 04, 2019 @07:32PM (#21708766)
my question is how do you make sense of a seemingly endless stacktrace? (really curious, it's some time since i did something in java)

Another problem i had with java: most projects are impossible to understand by looking at the source code, as they tend to do things like Spring or EJB: with delayed loading where class names are specified in some configuration files - and it is often hard to figure out how the system is initialized.

That leads to another question: Is it possible to learn about an unfamiliar java project from source code in this day and age?

i mean they used to say that perl is a write only language; but enterprise java isn't very readable either.

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Re:Generating a Java program with 90% less code by aembleton on Thursday December 05, 2019 @03:35AM (#21710813)
> Is it possible to learn about an unfamiliar java project from source code in this day and age?

Yes it is, but it helps a lot if you're familiar with the framework and the original developer used sensible conventions. I guess that's the same with any language though.

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