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I've been using Vert.x a lot and one of the great things is just throwing away the whole Spring magic and going back to basics with a sql query and processing the results without an ORM. Basically ignoring all the Java cruft that gives Java its bad reputation. Its so refreshing I love it.

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What Spring magic? If you're talking about spring-data, that is optional, you can use JdbcTemplate directly if you wanted instead.

All of it, the DI, the autowiring, the plugins, the attributes, the config files. Its so refreshing to have a call stack that isn't pages long.

I’ve built a product doing exactly that. That being said, the Vert.x path has some bumps along the way, but boy, oh boy, I’m so happy I’m not doing any Spring related stuff.

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