[jrabone]

Yeah, and I don't think he's been keeping up with Java EE 6 - EJBs are dead, long live JPA annotations. Of course, Spring is likely on borrowed time too. Just maybe we can lose the whole concept of a "framework", lightweight or not, that has kept those architects in business for so long.

[cunac]

why antagonism to architects ? It is only developer which actually will think about implications of what is doing from more than one point. It would be nice if I see more developers doing that instead just coding big pile of ..(you got a picture I guess)