alt Hacker News> It evokes memories of SOAP configs and J2EE (it’s fine, even good, if those acronyms don’t mean anything to you).
Heh, a couple of years ago I walked past a cart of free-to-take discards at the uni, full of thousand-page tomes about exciting subjects like SOAP, J2EE and CORBA. I wonder how many of the current students even recognized any of those terms.
I used all three of those to some extent, in investment banking back when it was bigger than tech, and while I still have some time for J2EE (WAR in particular), the other two, especially SOAP, should be taught as cautionary tales to the young 'uns...