Yep, 2005 was the era of Spring and Struts 1.0. Now, if that was not enough, someone in our project had built wrappers around Spring !!!. Key requirement for reading through that code - a bottle of scotch.
I agree. Not a coincidence that 2004 was the last year O'Reilly updated its "Java Servlet and JSP Cookbook." After that, it was all "recipes in spring" or some other framework, and that was also pretty much the beginning of the end for me with Java. I don't blame the language so much as I blame the frameworks.
