From: Nicolas Delsaux <nicolas.delsaux@...>
Date: 2005-03-30T00:20:20+09:00
Subject: Re: Java for Rubyists

On Wed, 30 Mar 2005 00:13:17 +0900, Christian Neukirchen
<chneukirchen@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> J2EE apps can be abstracted rather well (I think), but Java doesn't
> allow going high-level enough to make coding bearable.  You notice
> that as soon as code generation, XDoclet etc. gets used.

Not to enter a J2EE sucks (not) flamewar, but one shouldn't confuse
misconceptions in J2EE with Java's own abstraction level.
As a Java/J2EE developper, I do think they are two completely
different things. Java is quite a good programming language. Simple,
elegant, and powerful. But J2EE is all crap ! Nobody should ever have
to write a single line of those fugly XML files. And, for that,
annotations can be the best thing in Java5.
But I'm here really off-topic.



-- 
Nicolas Delsaux
"Un langage de programmation est cens� �tre une fa�on conventionnelle
de donner des ordres � un ordinateur. Il n'est pas cens� �tre obscur,
bizarre et plein de pi�ges subtils (�a ce sont les attributs de la
magie)."
Dave Small