A message I received from a friend working at Google:

"New layers, more layers, bigger layers, better layers, abstract layers, injected layers, factory layers, module layers, AbstractFactoryFactoryModuleBuilderInjector layers, layers upon layers within layers wrapped in layers, a glorious spire of layers to reach the heavens and bring renown to Babylon! Hellelujah!"

There is no doubt that there is a culture of abstraction stupidity in Java (although it isn't as bad as it used to be), and yes, I agree that a FactoryFactory is a code smell.

That doesn't make factories bad.

Factories is not bad in practice.

Essentially closures, curried functions, partial evaluated is the same thing: code that generate code.

I'm not a java developer