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My frustrating experience with J2EE and Spring is what led me to choose https://sparkjava.com/ as the Java framework for my SaaS.

The Spark framework is so light and refreshingly comprehensible. I can actually tell what's going on when a problem occurs.

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I used to really like Spark but the primary maintainer seems to go through periods of disinterest. I switched to using Javalin https://github.com/tipsy/javalin which was built by one of the top Spark committers a few years back.

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