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by Jon Dickinson
March 19, 2008
xperienced web developers know well how many layers of conversion they have to go through to present persistent information to the user:
Mapping web requests to executing code
Converting objects to relational data
Rendering markup from their object structures
Open source frameworks (particularly Spring and Hibernate) have become extremely good at easing the pain of these conversions, but that ease has come at a price: reams of XML configuration. On a typical web project using Spring and Hibernate, I spend a great deal of my time writing, updating, and debugging configuration files rather than implementing the valuable business logic I am paid to write.
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xperienced web developers know well how many layers of conversion they have to go through to present persistent information to the user:
