Join us in beautiful Hollywood, Florida for SpringAmericas 2008 coming
December 1-4th. SpringAmericas 2008 is the conference for the global
Spring community. This one-of-a-kind event is for application
developers, solution architects, and project managers who develop
business applications
Spring is a framework for dependency injection. see
http://www.springframework.org/
On Tue, Oct 21, 2008 at 8:45 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Okay. I give. I googled Spring, went to the conference site, wiki'd
SpringOne, and don't know.
What is Spring?
Respectfully,
Liz, Data Base
http://www.springframework.org
Parented by:
http://www.springsource.com
It is a dependency injection framework that promotes configuration
over convention and is bloated, commercially-inspired (by companies
like mine), and overall unnecessary. But, was the hot thing a couple
years ago
OoohKit puts on his flame-suite and throws a hand grenade into the room
Don't listen to that Luddite, Liz. Personally, I think Spring is terrific
and there are very few types of web applications I would build without it.
As for unnecessarysure, most tools are unnecessary but I
bet
Since there's some interest in Flex among our
members I'm forwarding an announcement for a
Tucson Adobe Group meeting -- the speaker is Joey
Lott, co-author of one of my favorite Flex books,
Programming Flex 3. His topic is How To Architect Flex Applications.
Here's the announcement:
Yeh, that was definitely chum for chums.
Seriously though, my issues with Spring are more political/business
than technical. Spring can do a lot for you - from a web-app or
enterprisey-app angle. But, it comes with a lot of fluff too, which
raises the learning curve - fair warning.
I'm
Thanks for all of your opinions. It'll be good to see you on the 11th.
What time and where?
Respectfully,
Liz, Data Base Administrator,
Methods Engineering
Kit Plummer [EMAIL PROTECTED]
10/21/2008 04:08 PM
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At 04:08 PM 10/21/2008, you wrote:
Yeh, that was definitely chum for chums.
:)
Seriously though, my issues with Spring are more political/business
than technical. Spring can do a lot for you - from a web-app or
enterprisey-app angle. But, it comes with a lot of fluff too, which
raises the
Going along with what Chad said (and sorry for top posting, but I
don't really understand that argument either) I'll take simple any
day. Though I've seen the value of Spring in stuff like ServiceMix, I
think Spring really shines in things like Grails. So, if I were going
to build a
