Enterprise JavaBeans

Raised as a usability problem by 4 people on Hacker News over 8 years (2014–2021), in 4 threads.

People raised many different problems with Enterprise JavaBeans, but no single problem has yet been raised by 3 people in 3 different months and threads.

Unreviewed issues were grouped by machine: Claude Haiku labelled each comment as a usability complaint, named what it's about and summed up the problem in a line, and a small model grouped similar problems. Nobody has checked them by hand. Expect mistakes.

The newest 4 complaints

Entity EJBs were a massive unusable mess, more trouble than they were worth2021-10-20
Simple starts need huge boilerplate; one useful method requires five to seven2020-10-29
Developers struggled with complicated persistence and beans not implementing their interfaces, requiring convoluted workarounds2015-10-04
Simple hello world required implementing interfaces, compiler tools and about 20 lines of XML2014-03-15