There are two central component models we use today: Spring POJOs and EJBs. With JSR-299 everything is a bean now. But, where’s the innovation? The JCP continues in conservation of what became a standard a decade ago.
There are two central component models we use today: Spring POJOs and EJBs. With JSR-299 everything is a bean now. But, where’s the innovation? The JCP continues in conservation of what became a standard a decade ago.
We’ve a lot of experiences now with Web 2.0 technologies based on AJAX and JSF. Although, we hold pretty modern, almost standards-based stuff in our hands the maintenance hell for the markup-based presentation layer is pretty lively. The costs are still tremendous in comparison to similar desktop developments.
Last November we got Spring 2.5 and with it the possibility to use annotations for dependency injection (DI). Annotations can be used instead or mixed with the classic application context file(s) based on XML. If you compare the former more complex XML configurations with what you still have to keep, after using annotations, it’s quite… Continue Reading