> An ideal web-application is developed once and the Java code is never > touched again for 3-5 years until there are a lot of new features > necessary....
where do you live? thats not my experience. Yes after a while the web app code is pretty done but then it did already run for 1 or 2 years in production Constantly changing so large parts of the development is done on "trunk" when there is already a "tag" thats in production. Thats how i think most do work. What some call design flaws we call design decisions
