Re: [lists] RE: [Springframework-developer] Slogan

[Rod J. <rod...@in...>]

> +1 for learn once, use anywhere. It would be good to emphasise how Spring
> can fit your code which makes a welcome relief from being straitjacketed
the
> other way around. To me this was one of the most liberating aspects of
> Spring: finally someone who understood how to build frameworks, who had
> reached what I (among many) had been unsuccessfully trying to get at for a
> while.

"Spring is about your applications"? I think this is a very important point.

I think the reason that some people perceive a lack of focus is that they
expect a framework to do something in particular (like Struts). In the case
of Spring, the framework is focused not on a particular technology, but on
real applications (or on the whole of J2EE). So I've used nearly every part
of Spring in different applications this year (not Hibernate support yet,
but that's a matter of time), and have not needed any other framework. So
Spring has been a great reflection of what I've needed for several quite
different apps.

"The _complete_ application framework. Learn once, use anywhere.  A single,
elegant solution everywhere."

Where do you want to go today (oh, maybe we shouldn't use that one).

Regards,
Rod