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We are no longer living in the days of EJB 2 and Websphere 6. Springboot allows you to get started quickly with out spending a week configuring your app server and Java beans. The article should have been titled "Using enterprise Java technology from 15 years ago will kill your startup. PHP will save it."

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I keep waiting to get cynical about Spring Boot for some reason (maybe once the next conceptual breakthrough which looks obvious in retrospect happens), but honestly it's the breath of fresh air and simplicity that the JVM ecosystem needed, and it has literally turned writing Java weba apps upside down (err..inside out?) in the best sense possible.

if you like Spring Boot try DropWizard. Similar support for REST interfaces but none of the stuff you don't need

Seconded. Even bare Java EE development hardly needs XML configuration anymore, since about EE 7 (maybe 6?).

At least with my work Java EE 6 and WebSphere 8 brought pretty decent annotation support. WebSphere Liberty looked pretty nice from the little I used it, but that was several years ago.

It has been started with Java 1.5/5, 14 years ago.

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