The BileBlog is painfully accurate
Let me start by saying I know “Hani”:http://www.freeroller.net/page/fate/ better than most people reading his blog. To me, I know him as a very smart developer who has an amazing ability to ‘not take crap’ from the tools he uses.
This is a very, very important ability. He thinks for himself and refuses to be lead ‘down the garden path’ by BS marketing droids, whitepapers and extraneous, overzealous blog posts.
So what myths is he lancing this week?
* “IDEA’s new features”:http://www.freeroller.net/comments/fate?anchor=idea_on_the_chopping_block – I have to agree with him that I don’t give a toss about AspectJ integration. I’m addicted to the new JUnit integration though, so back to 3.0.x is a no show. Oh and to the commenter who said to fix CVS integration before adding Subversion? 2 points.
* “Eclipse”:http://www.freeroller.net/comments/fate?anchor=things_your_mother_didn_t – well, I don’t use it so I don’t mind but the SWT comments sound valid.
* “Xdoclet”:http://www.freeroller.net/comments/fate?anchor=xdoclet_beauty_is_very_skin – a great tool, very useful when you need it but I agree with him that writing your own i18n framework for _build messages_ seems a little silly. I don’t use XDoclet that much (not being an EJB wonk) but Ara is sure a top bloke so I hold out hope for a good XD2 release.
* “Clover”:http://www.freeroller.net/comments/fate?anchor=about_that_clover_tool – I’m not sure I really care if Clover generates a million files on disk. It works very well so I’m happy with it actually. Now if only that damned Maven plugin worked…
As always – think for yourself before reading anything, you might just learn something 
