[Springframework-developer] Thanks to all the Spring developers

[Lars F. <lar...@gm...>]

This is a message to all Spring developers and potential users of Spring.

This week I've managed to get a first prototype with Spring and Hibernate
(two completely new technologies for me) working.  The biggest problem
was to get the configuration working (and a 'little' WebLogic problem).

Spring has a high learning curve at the beginning because it's a full
featured
framework for nearly all your needs. 

If you are willing to invest some time and get things working you will
understand
more and more what it's all about.

Spring can help you to get rid of all these annoying problems with EJBs and 
the related patterns only used to avoid performance problems. And despite
the
fact that the learning curve maybe high, you just have to learn ONE
framework.

If you want to keep existing technologies Spring is fine too (just use
the needed parts).

As a result of my experriences I can highly recommend the use of the Spring
framework, for me this is an outstanding peace of software with 
outstanding developers.

In the past year I've developed a larger application with EJBs. It's working
very well (emtremely fast, scalable and stable).  Today I'd use Spring which
is
much more elegant and makes you independant of the application server
vendor.

If someone reading this is in the situation of deciding whether to use
Spring or
not, my recommandation is to give it a try and you won't be disappointed !

My thanks go to all Spring developers for providing such a great framework !

Regards
Lars