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by microtonal 4634 days ago
Jersey is a true joy. It's really a nice way to write restful apps.

It's actually mostly JAX-RS which is a joy, and allows you to swap out Jersey for e.g. RestEasy with very little work.

I never liked Spring. And large enterprise apps' source code makes my eyes hurt. However, none of this is a reflection on Java or the JVM itself.

I agree. I hate Spring. Spring, J2EE and pre-JIT Java have probably done most damage to Java's public image. JAX-RS is very nice and lightweight. Play is brilliant, if you can deal with mixing in Scala here and there.