FactoryFactory is (or was) a well known parody of the multiple levels of abstraction Java developers were encouraged to make when performing even simple tasks. This started with an insistence that we should use getters and setters for field access, and it basically went downhill from there.
This kind of nonsense was endemic to the Java engineering culture while I was working in it.
Perhaps the worst example I saw was during the fluent API craze where someone in my team replaced a constructor call for a Button with five lines of fluent Builder pattern gibberish.
The point of mentioning FactoryFactory was to poke fun at the culture surrounding Java, which ended up being one of the reasons I stopped using it, because idiomatic java stopped making sense to me.
