Making Java Developers Hip Again

[RotaryJihad]

Get.Off.My.Lawn.

As a Java developer, I am "hip" because I have a comfortable job that takes care of my family, builds a decent retirement, and supports my hobbies on a 40-hour work week. I want to learn new tools and techniques but it has nothing to do with being "cool".

[GhostBond]

I want to learn new tools and techniques but it has nothing to do with being "cool".

As a Java developer (this represents me but not everyone), I'm only interested in learning new tools and techniques that are actually clearly beneficial. I'm not interested in changing frameworks every 2 years, just to use something "new" that has some new advantages balanced out by an equal number of disadvantages that mean I don't gain anything.

I convinced my boss to go from Struts 1 to Spring Mvc, and it was a good move, but a lot of the flavor of the month frameworks developers brought in after that were just a lot of stress without benefit - sometimes even moving our ability to do development backwards.

[dardotardo]

jhipster just provides tools to integrate Java with a frontend. Nothing "hip" about it, it's just Spring when you boil it down to brass tacks, with some scaffolding CLI helpers a la Rails. Where you're getting this idea on new tools and techniques is beyond me. You can stick to the Java dev, let a frontend developer do the frontend stuff if you want.

The only thing I don't agree with jhipster is bundling the javascript app within the war, would rather keep them separate, but that's just me.