You often hear people say, "use JEE 6: you'll be able to write standards-based applications," or "use Spring: it is the best way of writing enterprise applications," or, even still "Java is dead; .NET is the only way forward". A much better approach is to say that we should write good code. Code that is made up of sharply defined, loosely-coupled, testable components. The frameworks and runtimes are here only to support our software design goals.