[stepbeek]

> It's a disservice to persuade businesses to use smaller projects that don't have a comparable level of support, or flexibility.

This is why we use Spring. We have confidence that it'll be supported long-term and will continue to have backing from a whole host of companies.

It's slightly different in a large enterprise environment where a service might be fairly straighforward - take in input, spit out output to some data store. But for the kind of work we do - end-to-end webapps - we'd be doing ourt clients a great disservice to sell them on a microframework with our homespun implementations of security, transactions etc. bolted on top.

[heurisko]

> we'd be doing ourt clients a great disservice to sell them on a microframework with our homespun implementations of security, transactions etc.

One of the benefits of Spring Boot was that Pivotal test and ensure all the components work together, so you can upgrade safely. It made keeping things up-to-date much easier.

There's no business value in trying to knit it all together yourself, if you can pass the work onto somebody else who is paid to do it.