[jjpe]

> I personally am not a fan of too many abstractions.

Then you're likely in the wrong business, since most of what programming is is dealing with the various facets of one abstraction or another.

[emilsedgh]

Absolutely. I'm not saying I don't want to abstract anything or deal with any abstractions which can lead to ridiculous code [0].

I just prefer to abstract when I have more reasons that just testing. That can be done using mocking techniques.

https://docs.spring.io/spring/docs/2.5.x/javadoc-api/org/spr...

[TomMarius]

This is definitely a valid approach to software development, e.g. in embedded development (where you still might need to call APIs).