On Tue, Dec 7, 2010 at 4:07 PM, Ralph Goers <[email protected]> wrote:
> > On Dec 7, 2010, at 3:52 PM, Kevin Wright wrote: > > Both Spring and reflection are hacks around the type system anyway, seems > very sensible to ban them. > > What?? > > Before Spring there was PicoContainer and Avalon and then Guice came along > after, all of which has fed into injection into Java EE 5. Reflection is > used in lots of places including Digester, JAXB, and Tomcat's ClassLoader > and even Log4J. > Again, nobody said that reflection was useless, just that banning its use by default is probably a good rule of thumb to write applicative type Java code. Reflection is obviously mandatory for more "fundamental" frameworks such as Guice or TestNG, but people writing such Java code are in a very tiny minority. -- Cédric -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Java Posse" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en.
