"XML is perhaps the worst programming language ever conceived. I’m not talking about XML as a data-description language, which was its original design. I’m talking about perverting XML for programming applications. It’s inappropriate to use XML as a scripting language (e.g., ANT), a test-description language (e.g., TestNG), an object-relational mapping language (e.g., Hibernate, JDO), a control-flow language (e.g., JSF), and so forth. These sorts of XML programs are unreadable, unmaintainable, an order of magnitude larger than necessary, and audaciously inefficient at runtime."


from the same guy who gave us...


"The getter/setter idiom is a commonplace feature in many Java programs. Most of these accessor methods, however, are unnecessary and can severely impact your systems' maintainability. Using accessors violates the basic object-oriented (OO) principle of encapsulation, so you should avoid them."


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