tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27876765.post6248705002466056887..comments2024-03-20T13:37:39.909+01:00Comments on Day to day stuff: JRuby on Rails - Book reviewErik van Oostenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15976519439979651010noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27876765.post-48098629493420745912008-01-02T09:56:00.000+01:002008-01-02T09:56:00.000+01:00Hey Erik,Thanks for the book review - I might actu...Hey Erik,<BR/><BR/>Thanks for the book review - I might actually check that one out. I also had a look at Scala and man, that sounds sweet... :)<BR/><BR/>But one thing in your post caused me a little headache: you are a Spring fanboy! ;)<BR/><BR/>Just as you consider yourself lucky to not have worked with Session Beans, Message Beans etc. I consider myself immensely lucky to have finally managed to completely drive Spring out of my current project!<BR/><BR/>[rant]<BR/>Spring has had it's time but now - finally - people realize that configuration by convention is the way to go. And yes, Spring now supports annotations and "kind-of" allows for CBC, but all non-standard things you still have to do in XML files. <BR/>Developers finally start to understand that XML configuration is just regular code - only without strong typing, compile time type checking etc. And these developers switch to frameworks that focus on doing just one thing, but that thing they do well: simplify ioc in applications.<BR/><BR/>Google Guice ftw! :)<BR/>[/rant]<BR/><BR/>All the best for 2008,<BR/>CheChehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18073666483469758994noreply@blogger.com