Abstraction Distraction<\/a> where he emphasized that we must be aware of too much abstraction and do not let it distract us from the real thing, the real technology behing the scene.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n
III XML is not bad!<\/h1>\n
XML was very trendy during the last decade. At that time, during a job interview, if you did not know what is SAX\/DOM, XSLT, XPath and all of the kind you got no chance being hired.<\/p>\n
Nowadays the hype has changed, XML & XML-based Web Services is being criticized, sometime for good reasons, for its verbosity, difficulty to setup, heavy weight etc. The new star for cross-application exchanges is the JSON format along side with RESTfull architecture.<\/p>\n
In frameworks, the trend started with dedicated namespaces<\/strong> (Spring Security<\/strong>, Spring MVC<\/strong>) to alleviate the burden of configuration. Then they switch to Java annotations<\/strong> (Hibernate<\/strong> with Entity annotations, Spring<\/strong> & CDI<\/strong> with @Autowired<\/em> & @Inject<\/em>) and finally the idea for the next few years is full java configuration<\/strong>.<\/p>\n Do you remember how XML was sold to developers in the past ? They said that we must separate configuration (XML) from code (java). It helps the devops because they can fine tune the application with XML without having to rebuild the code.<\/p>\n
Now with the full java config hype, we’re doing exactly the contrary, putting all configuration in the code !<\/p>\n
One big advantage of XML is its centralization benefit. No matter in which package you put your code, no matter from which jar the classes come, all the instanciation and wiring are done in one big or some split XML files. With XML config you have a global overview of what is going on in your application, of what being injected into which bean and so on<\/strong>.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n
IV The future<\/h1>\n
It’s quite soon to predict what’s gonna happen in the next few years. The over-convention and over-abstraction trend is just starting. What I can say for sure is that step back from the hype and have good understanding of what’s lying behing the scene. Always stand out from the crowd<\/strong> and beware of the hype<\/strong> !<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"For once, this article will not show you any line of code or any demo application. Today we discuss about architecture and the recent trend in the Java (and more specifically Spring) world for abstraction and over simplification.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2,6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.doanduyhai.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/977"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.doanduyhai.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.doanduyhai.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.doanduyhai.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.doanduyhai.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=977"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.doanduyhai.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/977\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.doanduyhai.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=977"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.doanduyhai.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=977"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.doanduyhai.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=977"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}