Spring / IoC, unit-testing (was: Which web application framework? aka Why not Struts?)

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From: Phillip Rhodes <[email protected]>
Date: Dec 28, 2005 12:36 PM
Subject: Re: [Juglist] Which web application framework? aka Why not Struts?
To: Larry Karnowski <[email protected]>



On 12/27/05, Larry Karnowski <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Phillip & Don,
> An important thing to remember about Spring is that it's really many
> projects over one common architecture.  Spring itself is just an
> "inversion of control" framework.  It's a bean container that
> instantiates and configures Java beans from an XML descriptor file.
> Plain and simple.
> <snip>
>

Yes, Spring itself will be a part of the project, that's already a given.
Actually
Spring and Hibernate are both givens.  The open issue strictly  deals only
with
the presentation layer for the web-client.  I have no experience with
Spring's
MVC framework though, which is partly why I pose this question.

> For what it's worth, I think inversion of control and Spring are the
> wave of the future, if only for the incredible ease of unit testing with
> mock objects, etc.


Oh yeah, no doubt.  IoC rules in that regard.  Although, working out how
to unit-test DAOs which encapsulate Hibernate operations is still kinda
tricky
for the same reason that all DB related unit-testing is.
Mock Object still apply I suppose, but it seems like a lot of hassle to
write
mocks to stand in for the actual database.

TTYL,

Phil

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