You’re right, but It works both ways. Java 7 now does a lot of the things that web frameworks and libraries do, but baked into the language (rapid development without having to recompile, web resource, REST, etc. etc.). Also other languages on the Java machine, even JRuby, are used by many Java shops as standard practice (it’s still Java as far as the sysadmins are concerned).

Darn, those moving targets are difficult, eh?

[sorry for the double post]

The good point on all books being rails related is that there are more and more things done on top of it.
The bad point on a lot of people depending on the same middleware is… well… single point of failures, in all senses.