Re: what about adding spring ?

Grrr... every project I've seen with Spring in it is a trainwreck of
complicated crap. Scarab is enough complication that I'd rather not
see that repeated.

I vote for using jboss/ejb3. Take a look at subethamail
(http://subetha.tigris.org) for a good example of how to build a nice
webapp with great 3 tier separation. The same arch design is what I
use at work (http://kink.com/ not work safe) and it is serving up 15
very large porn sites without problems.

jon


On Mon, Jan 12, 2009 at 8:52 AM, hussayn <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi;
>
> I have been working a bit with Spring now on other projects. From all
> i can see, it should be possible to use the framework for Scarab's future
> development. Since Spring also promises to support a smooth and silent
> migration path, we could start slowly, then continue migration as
> needed/wanted...
>
> What do you think ? Shall we decide to go to spring now and start with
> the following baby steps for preparation and warmup ?
>
> 1.) Add Spring to the Scarab distribution (place the jars at WEB-INF/lib)
> 2.) Start by replacing YAAFI services by Spring services (as a warm up)
> 3.) remove yaafi
>
> Then it is time to start a serious refactoring. When i look at some classes,
> like ScarabRequestTool.java and ScarabGlobalTool.java i have the strong
> feeling, that we need to clean up more than only a bit ...
>
> The general master plan is to
>
> - clean up Scarab
> - rework the GUI and refactor business logic out of velocity into ...
> spring-beans ?
> - allow better integration of third party products (rework/add the API's)
> - ...
>
> I am not (yet) a Spring-"expert" and maybe there is a better way to
> get things done, but i have the strong feeling, that making this move
> can help us a lot. Especially because we do not need a huge refactoring
> beforehand to introduce it. We really could start immediately without
> breaking anything...
>
> Please tell me your opinion. Would it be a clever move ? Or am i introducing
> just another layer of complexity ?
>
> regards,
> Hussayn
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