Thursday, April 20, 2006

Spring lightweight?

Today, indeed Spring cannot be considered as “lightweight” when comparing it to other light solutions out there. this is mainly due to the vast amount of solutions it provides in almost all aspects of enterprise development. I guess “lightweight”, when taking it by its literal meaning, is somewhat inappropriate nowadays… perhaps “simple and comprehensive” is more suitable to describe Spring. But this term (I think) is not interpreted by its literal meaning. I think it’s still associated with its original meaning when it was compared with the heavy EJB containers.