The industry does not change much . Yes it does . It happens slowly but we don ' t use servlets or JSP ' s anymore and in most cases don ' t generate HTML on the server anymore either . We don ' t deploy inside tomcat behind apache anymore running directly on the hardware anymore either . We don ' t use ant to build our Java projects and we don ' t store both our code and our dependencies in SVN anymore . We don ' t deploy our jars wars by uploading them by hand anymore . The industry does move , albeit slowly . It ' s not a good idea to jump on every latest bandwagon but neither is it a good idea to stick exactly how stuff was done in 2005 either . If you don ' t see this change it means you are stuck . I do not even know what this stuff is , Case in point .