spring with XML configuration = ugly

[brianmanahan]

it's been years since i did spring with manual XML instead of the automated annotations

just had to slog through it tonight, and oh my gosh

someone shoot me!

 

[purbeast0]

i've never had to set up spring before, every project i've been on, it's already set up. and i've been using groovy, and if you add a new file in the "services" directory structure and just end the class/file name with "Service" it automatically makes it injectable.

 

[brianmanahan]

yeahhh i should really see if i can rewrite this whole thing in grails

at the very least i'm gonna change it to annotation-driven DI, so i don't hurt myself

 

[smackababy]

XML configuration always looks terrible. Annotations are so much easier to read and write.

 

[Leros]

I've moved to Java configuration with annotations. it's so much cleaner. The best part is that it's easier for the tools to show you usages of things. IntelliJ did a decent job understanding Spring XML but other code searching tools did not.

 

[brianmanahan]

i finally got this thing set up to at least allow new beans to be wired with @Component

too much of a pain to convert all the old stuff from XML to annotations, but maybe someday when i'm really bored

 

[Cogman]

Dagger 2 is really nice. I'm loving it (we just switched our projects from Guice to Dagger). No more days wasted because of some unknowable injection bug.

 

[brianmanahan]

interesting, never seen dagger before. i will have to try it out.

 

[Leros]

Dagger reminds of the dependency injection framework I used in C# projects a long time ago. It had the same basic import/provide mechanism.

 

[slugg]

Spring is tried and true. Yea, the XML context configuration is archaic, but you did the right thing by switching new development to annotation-driven. Once you're at that point, who cares.

I never liked Guice. I used it with Gin in a GWT based project and boy, was that miserable. Maybe it was Gin and GWT that made it such a horrible experience? It made me love Spring that much more...

 

[brianmanahan]

yep, once i got to annotations everything became easy again

spring is weird like that. one or two days of intense springification, then don't need to touch it for another 6-12 months because it just works.