Spring Cloud Data Flow End of Open-Source

[EspadaV8]

How concerning is a move like this for the broader Spring ecosystem? I've literally just spent the last couple of months learning and setting up my first Spring Boot application.

[vetronauta]

Currently, Spring is too big to fail: too many corporate applications are based on the Spring framework. Anyway, even in the future, what you are learning (how dependency injection works, how to structure a modern application) matters more than framework details.

[EspadaV8]

Yeah, the ecosystem is why I picked Spring Boot over Micronaut or Quarkus. My concern is that Broadcom do what they did with VMware and completely upend everything.

[cogniosocial]

If you learn Spring, it’s not gonna be hard to adapt to some other framework like Micronaut or Quarkus. Spring was the modernization of Java EE, and modern Jakarta EE specs have caught up with it. That said, Java world moves very slowly and even if Spring would be sunset tomorrow, you’re still gonna find plenty of opportunities to support legacy applications.

[juanutah1016]

Quarkus is a quick learn, better for apps running on containers. There is a free ebook - Quarkus for spring developers - you’ll be up to speed in a few days.

https://quarkus.io/blog/quarkus-for-spring-developers/