QOTD: Currently plain Java is my favorite ...
... IOC container.
Bill Burke (commenting on TheServerSide.com): Currently plain Java is my favorite IoC container. Nothing beats the simplicity of constructor and getter/setter methods. I'm so sick of seeing the guts of applications exposed through ugly XML or writing a billion annotations just to get access to a simple component. Its all ridiculous, bloated, and most of the time unnecessary. Anybody else fed up?
I know a lot of people who has sentiments like Bill's. I can just hear them say:
- My favorite OR mapping tool is JDBC
- My favorite quote-and-quote application server is the Java process
- My favorite logging solution is java.logging API
- My favorite application modeling tool are Java interfaces
- My favorite web application framework is none of the usual candidates
- My favorite JVM language is Java
And, yes, Bill, we are all fed up with writing stupid XML files!