I was recently having a look at the website for the 2006 version of The Spring Experience, to be held in Hollywood, Florida, I came across a session by Ben Hale I hadn’t noticed before. His session is titled ‘Spring Fundamentals & Philosophy’ and his abstract says the following:
When Rod Johnson wrote J2EE Design and Development he called J2EE “the best platform for enterprise development today”–that the problem in those days wasn’t J2EE itself but that it was “often used badly”.
At the heart of Rod’s book were techniques that showed us how to make J2EE work in practice. And delivered with that book were 30,000 lines of code that put those techniques into action. Add Juergen, Thomas, Alef, Colin, Keith, and Rob (in that order), and one hell of a passionate user community and, well, the rest they say “is history”.
I didn’t really think about all this for some time anymore, but this made me realize that our efforts aside, the community really was and still is a vital part in the success of the Spring Framework. I’m seeing more and more open source projects pop up recently that start out with a 1.0 release; a bit like the good-old (?) days when vendors with proprietary products dropped their stuff on the world after having sat in their ivory towers for ages thinking up their excellent new products.
So I was wondering; for those companies, is open source just a gimmick? Is it only to benefit from the open source wave?
Without trying to abstract a common law here, for me the success of open source (and specifically Spring in this case) could not have occurred without the excellent community, providing us with valuable feedback and input.
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