By reinventing I was talking of , connection pool / management, transaction management etc etc. I agree, you could do without spring and you could do without Ibatis too, You do without Struts and just use servlets. You could! But do u ? In an overall persona, Spring gives u great leverage. Ibatis to Spring is probably not the right parameter to judge Spring. I am not Spring crazy too. But I def feel It is better way to code and it does save a lot of time.
I am guessing you havent implemented Spring in a full fledge project. I was assuming it aint gonna work and it would be a waste of time too before my first Spring project. But just when the project was half way, i did realise its benefits. It is a good tool and am reiterating again, to see if it is the right tool for you currently and going forward in your project, you should be the one to decide. I am sorry to say, I dont feel this is the right forum to talk about Spring any more and I feel there would be better answers if you posted the same on the Spring forum too. Good luck with your project! -Sundar On Mon, Jan 12, 2009 at 2:21 PM, Rick <[email protected]> wrote: > On Mon, Jan 12, 2009 at 4:08 PM, Sundar Sankar <[email protected]> > wrote: > > Yes. Our project did take configurable prop files. But it didnt do just > > that. But looks like your need is to take a prop file and return an > object > > after hitting the db the prop file points to. Spring wouldnt be > neccessary > > if thats your used case. > > > > But I personally wouldnt wanna reinvent the wheel and waste time and > money > > on writing code and more so on testing the same for something that is > > already available and well tested. > > iBATIS gets the properties file for you. There is no "reinventing." : > > <sqlMapConfig> > <properties resource="database.properties"/> > > I'm not trying to be a jerk, but I am curious what you are truly > gaining using Spring. I'm not anti-spring but use it where it gives > you an advantage. What true advantage are you gaining using it? (I do > see some places where Spring really helps (hard-core test driven > development) but I'd be willing to bet 90% or more are using Spring > without TDD in mind and they would have saved time not even using > Spring in the first place.) >
