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A little surprised Spring is not mentioned. Composition in Java is a nightmare without Spring, and you can do some really interesting things in configuration that would take you days of writing initialization code in very little time.

If not for Spring, I'm not sure I would want to construct things in Java at all.

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He does mention Dependency Injection briefly. Anyway Spring is just one option (e.g. Guice is another one).

True, I just dont like Google's take on Java so I dont use any of their libraries.

Because he doesn't use Spring, he uses GWT.

There is no overlap between the two, you can use Spring with GWT as easily as with any other project. You probably mean Spring MVC.

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