Some parts in the utilities library may seem familiar to users of other popular frameworks such as Spring and Guice. This is not always a coincidence. - It is my view that Spring is just another IOC framework and that there can be many IOC - frameworks. Also, the support that one actually needs to develop applications and in + It is my view that there many good IOC + frameworks but that it is not a good idea to tie into any one of them + specifically. Also, the support that one actually needs to develop applications and in particular enterprise applications efficiently only requires a few basic support utilities - and typically not a big framework.
+ and typically not a big framework. Therefore, you will find a couple of small + utilities that may be familiar in the functionality they offer to what is found + in other frameworks.Apart from this, there are many other interesting developments going on:
In particular, I believe that Java EE 6 with new powerful concepts such as singleton - beans, lifecycle management, Contexts and Dependency Injection, and Enterprise OSGI will + beans, lifecycle management, Contexts and Dependency Injection, used in combination with Enterprise OSGI will provide the most powerful way to develop applications in the future. In this. I am making only an exception for web frameworks to which I think JSF is not a good solution. I would - use Wicket anyday if it's up to me.
+ use Wicket anyday if it were up to me.