A little bit of Spring, makes your code Sing! January 11, 2006
Posted by James Webster in : software, java, development , trackbackAlthough I know it is EXTREMELY FREAKING UNCOOL to be using Spring and Java!, I feel its worth commenting on the announcement of the availability of Spring 2.0 milestone 1. We make extensive use of Spring at the day job, and feel it has been a key contributor to our extremely high code coverage, and the promotion of the ravioli code pattern; although some are of the opinion that ravioli code is an anti-pattern, I prefer smaller pieces loosely joined over the alternative.
I’m particularly keen on this bullet point:
Asynchronous JMS facilities enabling message-driven POJOs
Part of our system’s architecture involves POJOs receiving asynchronous messages via JMS. Until now Spring Remoting only supported JMS on the producer-side, not on the consumer, and we rolled our own message consumer (which is easy enough to do to be fair). I’m aware of Lingo, a complete JMS plugin for Spring, but at the moment it only supports JMS 1.1.4, no good if you are constrained to Weblogic 8.1 and JMS 1.0.2. A brief look at the code for Spring 2.0 shows that they are already building support for both versions of the spec.
It looks like the Spring team is also making an effort to streamline the XML grammar for configuring bean factories, which makes me happier… but I wonder if they would consider a YAML markup syntax?
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