The BileBlog

Another week marches by, and to celebrate, a new village idiot must be crowned. First though, the usual batch of corrections and apologies.

First up is ofbiz, thanks to David Jones for posting a very heartfelt defence of ofbiz, and pointing out that sometimes choosing simplicity/clarity over clever designs and patterns is more useful in the real world (picocontainer fans, reread that last sentence).

Regarding all the EJB comments, I’m quite surprised that most people seem to have missed the point entirely. The point of my rant was NOT to walk over the same boring old complaints (5 files per ejb, all the metadata in xml, difficulty of mapping to existing schemas). Those are all red herring type issues; standard complaints that get trotted out that have been addressed (by xdoclet, xdoclet, and middlegen, respectively). The idea was to highlight concerns as an ejb user, not as someone who is looking at it from a distance eager to whine and complain that EJB’s suck. An ejb user has already accepted that it’s a component model, thus inheritance and various other OO niceties aren’t as available (although it’ll be interesting to see the impact that generics will have on EJBs, since they will make inheritance quite possible), so the idea was to avoid meta-complaints, and to cite specific concrete implementation examples instead; problems that could be solved trivially by enhancing the existing spec, rather than design issues that need a rearchitecturing approach.

Finally, the crowning ceremony…this week’s undisputed winner is Fred Grott. Clearly very indignant at being so easily surpassed last week, he came out with all guns blazing. I know it’s cruel to harp on about his abysmal spelling, but really, it’s so hard not to, considering how incredibly easy it is to avoid some of the more blatant ones (eg, using JEB for EJB). Maybe English is his second language, although that excuse doesn’t hold much water as English is my second language and I’m able to (mostly) construct coherent sentences. I won’t even contemplate the possibility that he only speaks English. How is it possible to think lucidly with only half a language at one’s disposal?

There’s also his pitiful attempts at humour, his jokes are so embarrassing that one cringes at them, ashamed to even be seen reading them. He even stoops so low as to post links to his ‘humour’ and pointing out that it’s funny. Another favourite party trick of his seems to be to post articles with my name in them, no doubt another pathetic attempt at trying to spice up his articles with some trash talk.

So Fred, here’s your village idiot hat back, you showed those JBoss people how it’s done. You’re a true master of your art.

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