The architect at my work recently handed a prototype he build to me and I was instructed to maintain it. In so doing, I have found a nice little parable here about how things can go wrong and how it can spiral out of control. Also, let’s spit on Hibernate. At the outset, he chose to build a REST server with Hibernate. He went with RESTEasy, which antedates Jersey (JAX-RS/JSR-339) by a few years. The first problem in our story happens because he is using an old version of RESTEasy and an old...
