[isthiseasymode]

People generally use spring when it comes to java.

Spring is just a few annotations away from creating an endpoint.

https://start.spring.io/

Of course with spring, there’s a lot of stuff that isn’t java that you have to know.

[hnfong]

You're probably referring to Spring boot, which I haven't used but I presume is fine.

However, the Spring framework in the 2000s was a horrible mess of "aspect oriented programming" and obscure XML configuration files. Till this day I had no idea what it was trying to achieve with that architecture (except maybe trying to avoid writing code by writing lots of XML configuration files instead)

I think they learned their lesson.