They're talking about Existential Crises in another post today.
I think I still have a copy of the book that Johnson wrote to accompany the creation of Spring (which someone wants $300 bucks for on Amazon, I didn't know it was a collector's item). The last time I used Spring, I had the distinct thought that I should go through his book as if it were a bingo card, comparing it with the latest version. It seems like it has reacquired all of the bits of J2EE that it set out to avoid.
If, outside of Spring, there is anything in the Java world that more perfectly embodies Nietzsche's warning about fighting with monsters, I don't know what it is.
