Description: In a push toward simplified J2EE, vendors have been unveiling rapid application development (RAD) tools at a furious pace. Today, for example, most integrated development environments (IDEs) provide wizards to generate the mundane and repetitive framework code necessary when building Model-View-Controller (MVC) applications. A good framework provides an easy, consistent (and preferably declarative) way to configure application components together. That framework should also enforce a \'clean seperation of concerns\' that will enable you to switch the implementation for an individual layer without affecting the rest of the application.
