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Thankfully those days are not with us any more. Java has moved on quite considerably in the last few years.

I think people are still too ready to use massive, hulking frameworks for every little thing, of course, but the worst of the 'enterprise' stuff seems to have been banished.

zelphirkalt 3 days ago [ - ]

I hope you are right. I really do. But I have a hunch, that if I accepted any Java job, I would simply have coworkers, who are still stuck with "enterprise" Java ideology, and whose word has more weight than the word of a newcomer. That's one of the fears, that stops me from seriously considering Java shops. Fear of unreasonable coworkers and then being forced to deliver shitty work, that meets their idea of how the code should be written in the most enterprise way they can come up with.

Always makes me think of that AbstractProxyFactorySomething or similar, that I saw in Keycloak, for when you want to implement your own password quality criteria. When you step back a bit and think about what you actually want to have, you realize, that actually all you want is a function, that takes as input a string, and gives as output a boolean, depending on whether the password is strong enough, or fulfills all criteria. Maybe you want to output a list of unmet criteria, if you want to make it complex. But no, it's AbstractProxyFactorySomething.

throwaway2037 3 days ago [ - ]

I don't understand these complaints.

Here is a tiny interface that will do what you need:

    @FunctionalInterface
    public interface IPasswordChecker
    {
        bool isValid(String password);
    }

Now you can trivially declare a lambda that implements the interface.

Example:

    const IPasswordChecker passwordChecker = (String password) -> password.length() >= 16;

abrenuntio 3 days ago [ - ]

I'm personally rather fond of Java, but even this (or the shorter `Predicate`) still can't compete with the straightforward simplicity of a type along the lines of `string -> bool`.

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