Every now and then, there’s an angry post or comment bitching about how the Spring framework is full of XML, how terrible and verbose it is, and how the author would never use it because of that. Of course, that is completely crap. First, when Spring was created, XML was pretty hot. J2EE deployment descriptors (yes, that was the name at the time) was XML-based. Anyway, it’s 2017 folks, and there are multiple ways to skin a cat.

Every now and then, there’s a post predicting the death of the Java language. The funny thing is that none of them writes about a date. But to be honest, they are all probably true. This is the fate of every language: to disappear into oblivion - or more precisely to be used less and less for new projects.

Admittedly, Java’s Swing is a much under-estimated technology for intra-enterprise applications. I’ve had the chance to work for some enterprises that used it and I’ve very much admired the delivered applications. At that time, they were far superior in usability compared to those meager web-applications (even though the gap is closing). That is not to say that Swing is a silver bullet, far from it.