Re: Spring framework

At 09:50 AM 11/13/2003 -0500, you wrote:

>Is anybody using Barracuda with Spring (www.springframework.org)?

I just recently read about the Spring Framework, but I'm still a bit 
confused as to what it is all about.  It seems that it might directly 
compete with Baracuda (the MVC framework part), but then there are 
different parts enabling Type2 IOC and AOP and I'm more aware of what those 
buzzwords mean than what good they would actually do me.  Maybe you could 
provide a synopses of Spring and how it might compete and/or be 
complimentary to Barracuda.  I know I'd be interested.  Also, as far as IOC 
goes, why not use Picocontainer?  And why does Spring provide its own AOP 
framework when there are 3 or 4 existing frameworks available?

Jake