Spring, Jakarta EE, CDI and Other Pathologies

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Argues that frameworks like Spring, Jakarta EE and CDI cause harm by using dependency injection, runtime proxies and AOP that create classes with 18–40 hidden dependencies, conceal state/behavior and make transactions silently fail on internal method calls. Presents real incidents (exam scoring errors, production outages) and recommends avoiding app servers and large frameworks in favor of manual wiring, constructor injection, libraries instead of frameworks and small functional components.

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1. 0:00Introduction
2. 10:21Dependency injection basics
3. 27:13Spring proxy magic
4. 39:19Spring hidden trap
5. 44:59Framework vs library
6. 48:31Summary

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