Springsource Acquires Hyperic

Posted May 5, 2009 19:42 UTC (Tue) by flewellyn (subscriber, #5047)
Parent article: Springsource Acquires Hyperic

Who acquired who, now?

I've never heard of either of these companies.

no kidding.

Posted May 5, 2009 20:25 UTC (Tue) by mattdm (subscriber, #18) [Link]

There was a funny "slashvertisement" story on slashdot the other day which started with a comparison about how, now, finally, there was a credible threat to Microsoft and IBM. Yeah.

Springsource Acquires Hyperic

Posted May 6, 2009 16:38 UTC (Wed) by robertm (subscriber, #20200) [Link] (3 responses)

Who acquired who, now?

Springsource is pretty big in the Java world. They make a product that uses XML and buzzwords to turn compile-time errors into runtime exceptions.

Springsource Acquires Hyperic

Posted May 6, 2009 19:47 UTC (Wed) by nix (subscriber, #2304) [Link] (2 responses)

Why would you want to do that? I thought the static typing world had gone
to great lengths to convert runtime exceptions into nice safe static
compile-time errors... and Java contains a compiler which can throw
exceptions when things go wrong, so the conversion the other way comes
automatically.

Springsource Acquires Hyperic

Posted May 6, 2009 20:20 UTC (Wed) by robertm (subscriber, #20200) [Link] (1 responses)

You wouldn't want to do that. Unfortunately, Java culture frequently seems to really wish that Java were a dynamically typed language — and under a very thin layer of static typing, it is. Spring is basically a workaround for real deficiencies in the Java linking model plus quite a few helper classes for simplifying common actions that require a large amount of Java boilerplate, but the "dependency injection" part of the cure is in many ways worse than the disease.

Springsource Acquires Hyperic

Posted May 6, 2009 21:25 UTC (Wed) by flewellyn (subscriber, #5047) [Link]

I never cease to be amazed at the lengths to which the Java community will go to overcomplicate things.