Meeting 11

People who're gung-ho about the refactoring catalibipies of modern IDEs extending to non-Java files miss a point that may be fine and dandy when refactoring, but when you're creating the class, you still have to put it into the XML properly manually. With the use of frameworks in modern projects, your java class might be referenced in more than one XML file, all of which you have to remember to update, and for all of which you have little to no compilation support. XML configuration, especially when it proliferates, is still a bad idea. If you've never had a bug because of mismatched classes and resource files, your project is probably small.