Seedwork
September 12th, 2003
This article, and the one it links to, are a nice read. Frameworks are indeed often hard to learn, and you're tempted to just fork them into your own codebase. This gets rid of "how can I do that in the most general way, so that it will work on a J2EE server as well as a mobile phone". But it brings the burden of keeping up with the interesting extensions/bug fixes/... that are written on the framework. Which brings us to the final question: "Can you really let it go?" Probably not. You don't abandon your child. But at least, Martin Fowler now grants us his permission to write less-than-ideal software. Which we were doing anyways.
Does this increment my Java Idiot Score"?
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