http://craigrandall.net/archives/2006/05/software-is-too-hard/ Thoughts about software architecture, books and life Wed, 04 Jan 2012 18:00:35 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v= http://craigrandall.net/archives/2006/05/software-is-too-hard/comment-page-1/#comment-1239 Craig’s Musings » Blog Archive » I’m starting to see red Sun, 03 Sep 2006 21:19:33 +0000 http://craigrandall.net/archives/2006/05/software-is-too-hard/#comment-1239 [...] While I may cumulatively spend a majority time and passion developing on Windows in .NET et al during my career, I also work with a significant Java code base at work. IMHO, both of these platforms overshoot the needs of classes of solutions with burdensome (not pervasive) runtimes, prolific APIs, and layer upon layer of functionality with sometimes questionable value (e.g. does this layer justify another part of the underlying platform, framework or toolset, or does this layer yield clear business value?). For example, my previous post about WS-* pain relief is as much about Java’s WS-* implementation as WS-* itself. (FWIW, I prefer Microsoft’s approach in Windows Communication Foundation, which just went Release Candidate, by the way.) [...] [...] While I may cumulatively spend a majority time and passion developing on Windows in .NET et al during my career, I also work with a significant Java code base at work. IMHO, both of these platforms overshoot the needs of classes of solutions with burdensome (not pervasive) runtimes, prolific APIs, and layer upon layer of functionality with sometimes questionable value (e.g. does this layer justify another part of the underlying platform, framework or toolset, or does this layer yield clear business value?). For example, my previous post about WS-* pain relief is as much about Java’s WS-* implementation as WS-* itself. (FWIW, I prefer Microsoft’s approach in Windows Communication Foundation, which just went Release Candidate, by the way.) [...]

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