Java Frameworks War: Spring and Hibernate

Question

My developers are waging a civil war. In one camp, they\'ve embraced Hibernate and Spring. In the other camp, they\'ve denounced frameworks - they\'re considering Hibernate

Answer 1

I haven't worked much with Java but I did work in large groups of Java developers. The impression I've got was that Spring is OK. But everybody was upset at Hibernate. Half the team if asked "If you could change one thing, what would you change?" and they'd say "Get rid of Hibernate.". When I started to learn Hibernate it struck me at amazingly complex, but I didn't learn enough (thankfully I've moved along) to know if the complexity was justified or not (maybe it was require to solve some complex problems).

The team got rid of Spring in favor of Guice, but that was more like a political change, at least from my point of view and other developers I've talked to.