While reading that pile of code I couldn't help parsing it as Java, although syntactically it could be a wide variety of languages.
Are there any other languages' libraries with complicated designs like that one or is this a problem specific to Java?
Just to give an example, this is a snippet of code I had to write dozens of times in a college project using the javax.xml.soap library to create a simple soap message with a tag on it:
MessageFactory mf = MessageFactory.newInstance();
SOAPMessage soapMessage = mf.createMessage();
SOAPPart soapPart = soapMessage.getSOAPPart();
SOAPEnvelope soapEnvelope = soapPart.getEnvelope();
SOAPBody soapBody = soapEnvelope.getBody();
Name name = soapEnvelope.createName("HelloWorld", "hw", "");
SOAPElement element = soapBody.addChildElement(name);
element.addTextNode( "hello text message" );
It's not exactly the same issue has in the example on the blog post, but I think it also represents something that could be a lot simpler/shorter.
It is specific to the "enterprisy" java libraries. You can easily use java without this kind of garbage, just keep away from JavaBeans, SOAP, xml config files, etc and code directly to a simple java server sitting behind a reverse proxy such as Nginx, Lighttpd, etc.
If you always repeat the same steps, why can't you abstract them into a single method that takes name and text as arguments. You shouldn't ever have to repeat the same set of steps in multiple locations.
Well, of course, and I ended up doing that. But that's not the point, is it? The guy in the blog post could also abstract all those lines in some method and it wouldn't make that OO design with factories and contexts any less bloated.
Are there any other languages' libraries with complicated designs like that one or is this a problem specific to Java?
Just to give an example, this is a snippet of code I had to write dozens of times in a college project using the javax.xml.soap library to create a simple soap message with a tag on it:
It's not exactly the same issue has in the example on the blog post, but I think it also represents something that could be a lot simpler/shorter.