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Both Spring and JavaEE (as compared to J2EE) have gotten a lot better by using annotations for meta-programming. I was about to give up on enterprise Java prog
by smoyer 11y ago
Both Spring and JavaEE (as compared to J2EE) have gotten a lot better by using annotations for meta-programming. I was about to give up on enterprise Java programming when the clutter/over-engineering started to get better.
Curiously, I'm going to at least partially credit Ruby for introducing the idea of convention over configuration.
- mooreds 11y agoWhy curiously? RoR hit hit java web development like a ton of bricks, with its convention over configuration and quick start. The end result are java projects like Play and Spring Boot. I am not really a ruby guy, but I'm very thankful RoR came along and shook things up.