...features enable businesses to customise applications by making changes in a metadata layer without needing to touch applicationcode," said Phillips. This means customisation is now possible without making future upgrades as difficult, complex...
http://www.computerweekly.com/Articles/2009/07/02/236742/oracle.htm
...interested in. While a microbenchmark may be a pathological case, the same sorts of things can happen in our real applicationcode. Another reason to write dumb code is that most of the complexities are due to some optimization that everyone...
http://java.sun.com/developer/technicalArticles/Interviews/devinsight_1/