[phillmv]

Like I said above, "Granted, this may be easier with newer frameworks, but still." :). Good to see it's you can have some lighter loads.

TFA mentioned this was how Modern Java Web Dev With Instrumentation is Done (worth mentioning that Javaland instrumentation is world class), so just going by the examples he provided.

[kasey_junk]

I think that is more a difference in which frameworks you use as opposed to which language. The examples in the article are using individual components to build out the system. This provides unlimited flexibility and will be very valuable if the system is going to scale in complexity.

My example on the other hand uses Spark, a micro framework that is not very flexible and hides a lot of the complexity, meaning that if your own solution becomes more complex you may have to abandon Spark entirely.

I've seen that dichotomy in every web framework I've encountered.

[phillmv]

>I think that is more a difference in which frameworks you use as opposed to which language.

I don't think it has much to do with which language per se but more to do with what the language community considers acceptable. You can write mostly head-ache free frameworks filled with "magic" in Java like the rest of them, but it's not a strong cultural value.

To turn to the microframeworks example, I can't speak to Spark but in Ruby land it is not hard to flesh out your sinatra app into a more complex beast should the need arise - converting Sinatra half way to a mini Rails is not something I would recommend, but mostly because you lose easy-library support and ease-of-update down the road (you shouldn't be writing your own custom framework period, sort of thing), and not necessarily because of a lack of flexibility.