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I think they might be conflating "programming by convention" which was what facilitated a lot of serialization schemes and other tooling that leaned in to the w
by spacemanmatt 4y ago
I think they might be conflating "programming by convention" which was what facilitated a lot of serialization schemes and other tooling that leaned in to the whole bean concept with lowcode.
- lmm 4y agoNot just serialization. I'm talking about things like the drag and drop graphical flowchart thing that WebSphere has (or had), which behind the scenes is an editor for XML files that instantiate a bunch of EJB. With Spring you don't get the graphical builder part but people were still pushing the idea that you would edit the XML files rather than your application code and this would be better. I know those are second- or third-party frameworks, but WebSphere was the flagship JavaEE implementation and I swear this was the stuff Sun was hyping up as examples of what Java would let you do.
- spacemanmatt 4y agoOk, now you are talking about success that Sun and/or Java community did deliver on. I loved composing object maps with application.xml when I was a Spring user. That was a full head+shoulders above hand-coding constructors and calling setters. And yes, it was a clean interface for a GUI but I never went there. To be sure, that is configuration, though.