It has been said that Fortran and Cobol programmers can write Fortran / Cobol programs in any advanced language. Bit like the C programmers using C++ where the

It has been said that Fortran and Cobol programmers can write Fortran / Cobol programs in any advanced language. Bit like the C programmers using C++ where they only use "//" for comments. It is possible to architect and write enterprise software using OOP, but it takes talented and dedicated OO-ADP (analysis-design-programming) team to pull it off. Most projects don't have the time-frames to accommodate such an ambitious goal. Hence the adoption of Spring / J2EE, et al. Frameworks are always a compromise compared to carefully crafted systems.