Talk:Spring
Of course Low you know I am in total agreement with you on this! I did speak to Rod Johnson about our project and he said to call him, but nobody seemed interested so I let it go :(
I think we could use the IOC & injection to slowly (rather than in one big bang) shift the PO to from being jdbc driven to JPA. At first glance the classes already look separated into Business & Persistence logic, but really the business logic is spread between the MClasses & Callouts. And with the M classes extending the X classes... it's no better than using includes because at runtime we end up at with one big monolithic class. So it's difficult but at the end of the day we are looking to make a 2-tier designed application 3-tier so it won't be easy but I thing spring offers the best approach.
And there are many other possibilities as you said .. OSGi as well as acegi security... not to mention integrated testing. With a basic client server application, I don't think people comprehend the difficulty unit testing an n-tier application. But more than all this I feel the spring community are real developers solving real problems rather than academics solving theoretical problems... When I read their forums I get a real feeling of people knowing the what they are doing. Croo 13:37, 31 July 2007 (EDT)
