Java Annotation based Frameworks
Now everyone and their Mother-in-law is jumping in the Annotation bandwagon. I believe Cedric was the first developer to come up with an annotation based framework - TestNG.
Now we have Stripes which I think is pretty decent. Then came JBoss Seam and now Apache's Beehive. They are all annotations based framework or components designed to make your web application development easier. I forgot all about Trails, a framework inspired by Ruby on Rails (known as RoR by devotees).
Choice is good. So much choice is ridiculous. Will these framework authors please talk with each other and come up with a single solid choice instead of dozens of half-hearted efforts?
Soon we will see java annotations being misused for everything under Sun. Annotations have become the next XML.
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October 7th, 2005 at 2:29 pm
We’re trying. I can tell you for sure that I (developer on WebWork) have reached out to many projects in effort to work together. Some of them have realized we’ve gone past the point of sanity and are working to consolidate now. Don’t worry, it is happening.
October 7th, 2005 at 9:19 pm
That is an admirable effort on your part.
I think there is a strong need to form a governing body of Java OSS frameworks which can take some hard decisions including projects / features to discontinue and migrate and focus all the effort to a single high quality solution. It isn’t easy but if it can be done, Java frameworks will move to the next generation and rule for long time to come. More on it later.
It takes significant time and energy to master a framework. With so many most of the effort is spent in learning and evaluating rather than actual development.