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By Motion Control
via crazybob.org
Submitted: May 25 2008 / 14:52
By "Spring" I mean the Spring Framework, specifically the dependency injection container. First off, I mean no offense to Rod et al (you're all good people), but frankly I haven't been able to get my head around your framework. Even worse, I've noticed what I consider to be a dangerous and blind increase in the rate of Spring adoption. I've yet to read a critical article or book on Spring. It seems like everyone loves Spring except me; am I missing something? Maybe Spring adoption is a knee-jerk reaction to J2EE. "J2EE is bad, and the Spring guys say their stuff is better, so Spring must be good." It doesn't work that way.
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Gregg Bolinger replied ago:
While he at least prefaces that he found Guice and likes it better than Spring most of his points against Spring aren't as relative today as they might have been in 2006. This article serves no purpose other than to start flame wars. If your articles are old, at least make sure they are still relevant before submitting them, please.
bhaskarvk replied ago:
The guy is talking about features not available until Spring 2.0 , WTF ? How old is this article any way ?
Motion Control replied ago:
"most of his points against Spring aren't as relative today as they might have been in 2006"
Spring hasn't changed much in the last 2 years. Some additional configuration options have been added (Annotations) but the core "Spring framework" is the same. The article is as valid today as it was in 2006.
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