Keep up the good work!

http://static.springframework.org/spring/docs/2.5.x/reference/dynamic-language.html#dynamic-language-beans-jruby

I like spring, however I consider it overkill for small projects. The size of its codebase gives me a slight impression it is overweight, in comparison.

Another thing which amuses me is the fact that Spring became de de-facto option for J2EE. I don’t think Pico, Guice, Hivemind, or even plexus (which I consider the second most used – Think Maven2) being options. I think this architectural myopia, among other things, brings me a feeling of lack or alternatives.

Until someone play Gavin King and show it could be done differently. OTOH, I expect Spring to be more granular, with dependencies becoming smaller, thus letting me use a choose-what-you-need approach.

“For example, a team using Apache Struts to develop a banking web site can focus on how account withdrawals are going to work rather than how to control navigation between pages in a bug-free manner.”

I think when we were in Germany you and I didn’t write the kind of software that really needs all that boilerplate. Maybe you’re writing larger stuff now? Of course, Spring 2.5 is way ahead of Spring 2.1, that counts.

Just like developing with Struts involves hours spent debugging glitches in “navigation between pages”, developing with Spring involves hours spent with stuff completely unrelated to the task at hand. There’s a point of break-even, when the overhead starts to compensate, and it is project-specific.