I believe my last post clearly showed that I disagree.

There is no 'boilerplate' required with Java. Anyone can obfuscate Java, or any language, and make code that is overly and unnecessarily complicated. Some do it because they don't know better. Some, like yourself, just do it to be an ass.

I wasn't doing it to be an ass. Even if you are allowed to manipulate the class function you're dealing with (and so spare new classes), most java code does look like the example I gave: lots of verbiage, having to create special classes (including [verb]-er classes). Very, very unpleasant to read, and not big on beauty either.