Spring Source has changed its maintenance policy (press release). From now on we’ll have to buy commercial support for maintenance releases of the Spring framework if we still want support after 3 months. This worries me a lot as Spring was becoming the defacto standard in J2EE development.

The need for a new book on Java EE is rising and I already got a perfect title for it! How would “J2EE Development without Spring” sound like? The cover :

This book would explain how you could still be agile in your development environments, without breaking your codebase and how you can get around the problems Spring currently has: too bloated, a lot of functionality and a lot of ways to get something done (annotations, various xml configs to do the same).

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