[Springframework-developer] Great work!!! - Dependencies

[Alef A. <al...@jt...>]

Hi people,

First of all I want to compliment you all on the work you've done so
far! I've been using Struts in a couple of projects in the last two
years and find that they've really been overengineering it lately. I saw
the post about your beta release on TheServerSide this morning and
starting playing with it for on hour. My statement always is: when I
understand things a little bit within the first half an hour, it must be
good... Well guess what ;-).

Right now I'm researching into a couple of technologies for building our
next app, and Spring is definitely one of them... I'll keep you posted
and will probably ask some questions once in a while...

> XMLC is amazingly fast and, 
> while a bit weird, it has some 
> things going for it. Unfortunately 
> the XmlcView brings in about 2 Mb 
> of XMLC dependencies, so it would 
> be a real problem with third 
> party libs. 
> Although I guess that affects 
> only developers.

Furthermore, I was browsing the mail archive and saw that sometimes your
kind of scared about putting dependencies in your project. I don't know
if it would help you somehow, but we've been using the repository
approach from Maven (not the complete Maven tool, because I don't think
it fits our needs at all). There's a small Ant task for it, called
Greebo (search on Google for 'ant greebo' and you'll find it). Using
this you can leave the third party stuff on a public reposittory (like
the one ibiblio offers, www.ibiblio.org/maven) and they only get
downloaded when needed...

Well, that's it 4 now,

Cheers,

Alef

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