the springframework is using POJOs extensivly. How does the approach in Spring fits to your book? What do you think about frameworks in general and spring specifically?
I really like Spring a lot and I write about it extensively in my book.
Some of my favorite features include: * A very flexible dependency injection mechanism * Spring AOP for providing services such as transaction management, connection management, security etc etc. * Spring ORM classes such as HibernateTemplate, which significantly simplify the implementation of DAOs.
I had my first real look at Spring at TheServerSide Symposium back in 2004. At the conference I realized that Spring was an extremely useful framework. So much so that the monday after the conference we started using for all new development. I never regretted that decision because development was so much easier and faster.