This year ,I will recover from my Spring addiction. The grim realization that Spring ruining me a as a programmer dawned upon me when I looked at my project tha

This year ,I will recover from my Spring addiction. The grim realization that Spring ruining me a as a programmer dawned upon me when I looked at my project that was using Spring Integration and I could not figure out what the heck was happening . There was so much xml that my eyes bled ! Other Spring addicts suggested using the Spring IDE for visualizing Spring Integration xml, but I think the Spring way of life just makes simple things complicated. I have decided to refactor all my Spring Integration code and instead use Clojure ( perhaps in most non-idiomatic fashion) to glue java static methods into a sequence of functions that provide the same workflow as Spring Integration. If this works out, I will target Hibernate next; I hate having to do master hibernate/ORM api to do SQL operations.