I’ve never even looked at JRuby. Ever.

So I started to look at it yesterday, after I read somewhere that Spring 2.0 is going to have some built-in dynamic language support. Now, don’t get me wrong, I really like Spring. Six months ago you couldn’t catch me saying enough good things about Spring and how wonderful IoC / dependency injection makes life. But I want to say for the record, that whoever thought it was a “good idea” to allow people to embed JRuby / Groovy code in Bean Definition Files (see here) should probably be kicked in the teeth. And if that’s how I feel about it, then I don’t even want to know what Allen Holub would have to say.

Mind you, he probably doesn’t like Spring at all anyways, since it’s all based on XML configuration – but you have to draw the line somewhere.

Friends don’t let friends start embedding chunks of code from random languages into XML files.