John O’Hanley got amused notice from this blog when he decried Spring’s cult-like qualities and declared that his Web4J framework would ease your pain. He’s obviously something of a bomb-thrower (this thread at TheServerSide.com certainly contains its share of hullabaloo) and so I had a feeling that the article he wrote for JW, “Four harmful Java idioms and how to fix them,” would raise a few hackles. I was not disappointed! The Dark Views blog weighed in with a post called Four harmful Java idioms, and how NOT to fix them, and the Poor Inner Life blogger declared that the article was something he could have written “if I lived on Bizarro World.” One point I notice both make is their insistence that IDEs’ ability to color syntax and let you jump from place to place within a class makes some of O’Hanley’s points moot. I wonder if John isn’t an aficionado of at least making old-fashioned coding possible, as another JavaWorld writer proposed? Software Development