Sorry for the "flame" , but I've used spring on 2 large projects and it worked out great.. you should check out some of the GUIs to help manage the XML configuration files, if that is reason your team thought it was a nightmare because of the configuration(we broke ours up to help)..
Jeryl Cook -----Original Message----- From: Alan Burlison [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, January 16, 2007 10:52 AM To: solr-dev@lucene.apache.org Subject: Re: Update Plugins (was Re: Handling disparate data sources in Solr) Bertrand Delacretaz wrote: > With all this talk about plugins, registries etc., /me can't help > thinking that this would be a good time to introduce the Spring IoC > container to manage this stuff. > > More info at http://www.springframework.org/docs/reference/beans.html > for people who are not familiar with it. It's very easy to use for > simple cases like the ones we're talking about. Please, no. I work on a big webapp that uses spring - it's a complete nightmare to figure out what's going on. -- Alan Burlison --