[Fabricio20]

It's funny to see this perspective! I used to work in a few companies locally who had adopted the early java-ee style for their applications and my experience is exactly the opposite. When going to spring I'm usually diagnosing issues on the application layer (ie: business issues, not framework issues), while on the java-ee applications I was often having to fix issues down at the custom persistence layer each company had, etc.. I see where you come from having looked at the "old" spring stack (non -boot), and I can see people getting mad over the configuration hell and how stuff is hidden behind xml.. Much like how java-ee is!

[bedobi]

Spring and Java EE are not the only options out there. These days DropWizard, Ktor and others are MUCH better alternatives.

[chasd00]

Iirc spring was invented as a response to the j2ee madness.