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Have you tried Spring Boot? It reduces lots of the "complicated" stuff to declarative annotations and will provide you with very reasonable defaults for most use cases.

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Annotations often bring with them implicit, hard to debug, "magic" behaviour. I prefer boilerplate over annotations.

I dislike Spring "at the margin". I do prefer Spring Boot because it's less Spring-like than Spring.

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