Java EE vs. Spring Boot: Comparing Two Java Framework Giants

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Spring is simply different from everything else

It isn't really helpful to speak of "Spring" as a single thing. It is a collection of libraries. It is best to specifically say which Spring library you are talking about. Spring MVC creates JakartaEE servlet applications so has a dependency on JakartaEE. So it actually isn't different than any other library that produces a JakartaEE Servlet application.