[Springframework-developer] Re: Some code remarks

[Yannick M. <yan...@fa...>]

Pieter Coucke <pieter.coucke <at> onthoo.com> writes:
> I browsed a bit through the Spring source code and have some remarks 
> about possible code improvements.
> 
> 1) JavaScriptUtils can be replaced with 
> StringEscapeUtils.escapeJavaScript(), which is in commons-lang 2.0 
> (apparently the current commons-lang version is an old one where this 
> class isn't included)
> 
> 2) HtmlUtils can be replaced with StringEscapeUtils.escapeHtml()

Please read the following: http://tinyurl.com/66lny

Right now, Spring is not dependent on commons-lang, and I certainly hope it will
stay that way.

*Dependencies are EVIL*

I don't think any spring user has any desire to have to include 10mb of
commons-this, commons-that just to run their hello world spring application (
see cocoon for one of the scariest examples )