Maybe it’s just my ADD but…

February 27, 2009 · by Paul Eggerling-Boeck

…I find it increasingly confusing to sort out the multitude of different frameworks available in the Java web development space. I seem to remember being pretty darn productive writing plain ‘ol servlets with JSPs. OK, OK, I did use custom tag libraries, but that’s all. Give me a simple ORM framework (not Hibernate, I said simple) and a simple MVC framework and I’m good to go. I really start to chafe when it comes to view frameworks like Wicket or Tapestry. IMHO, these frameworks make it extremely difficult for someone to start new on a project and understand how to fix something that might be wrong. As a consultant, one of my goals is always to create very maintainable code. If you compare that way of working to a pattern, then using some of these view frameworks is a great example of it’s anti-pattern. I just wish more people would see the value of keeping things simple and not always be looking for a tool to throw into the mix to solve a problem that could be solved in a more simple way with a little forethought. I hate to think about how much time (i.e. money) is wasted by IT employees world-wide who are tasked with trying to evaluate some of these frameworks with the goal of choosing one over the other.

“They tell me I have ADD. Look! A Chicken!”

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