[diebir]

Not sure about using Spring for creating Web services (most use JAX-RS), but otherwise Spring is great. Not sure what we would do without it. The two major aspects are the dependency injection and just sheer number of service libraries to do anything imaginable.

I generally try to stay away from strong opinions and assume that when something has an opinion there may be a reason behind it, but in the case of Spring and Java, I have concluded that those not using or familiar with Spring are simply clueless jokers.