Java and Spring = an effort multiplier. It makes you spend more effort to obtain the same you would with other tech stacks.
Massive amounts of boilerplate and slow build times.
There are better ideas out there.
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Massive amounts of boilerplate and slow build times.
There are better ideas out there.
The old Spring, not so much - I've never had a bare Spring project that was pleasant to work with, especially when you don't have embedded Tomcat and the application server is configured separately from the deployable .war or whatever, what a mess. Thankfully, you can put those legacy projects into containers and make things slightly more palatable.
That said, even Spring Boot can feel a bit much sometimes, something like Dropwizard is still very idiomatic as far as the Java ecosystem is concerned and is both stable and usable in those cases: https://www.dropwizard.io/en/stable/ (not as fancy as Vert.X or Quarkus or whatever, but it's been around for a while and is decently documented)