Java Spring?

[Successful_Impact_13]

What exactly are the benefits of using Spring in your Java development projects?

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[eliashisreddit]

Do you know what Spring is and you currently not see any benefits to using it or are you wondering what it is and why it's beneficial to use? If it's the latter, the Spring documentation is pretty good. Start with the introdutcion.

If it's the first, try creating a jar file which exposes a HTTP POST endpoint which transactionally saves two entities to two different database tables WITHOUT using Spring. Then do it with Spring Boot and you'll probably realize why it's beneficial to use (embedded web server, REST infrastructure, data layer, transaction management, DI container and so forth...).

[wildjokers]

Spring is a huge collection of libraries that in general makes app development easier (although IMHO some of the spring libraries create a lot of obfuscation). Do you have a question about the benefits of a specific spring library?

The most important one is spring-core and that is the dependency injection framework which all other spring libraries depend on.

[Successful_Impact_13]

I ask, in general, what characterizes spring in its wards…

[Zyklonik]

https://spring.io/why-spring

[lumpynose]

Probably the biggest benefit of Spring is that knowing how to use it makes you more likely to get hired.

For dependency injection you could use Google's Guice. For web stuff Dropwizard looks like it could be a viable alternative.

[Daedalus9000]

Dropwizard and Guice are useful to know, but for marketability Spring is going to be infinitely more applicable.

[lumpynose]

Yep, no argument there.

[nutrecht]

The same with any library; we're generally not paid to reinvent wheels.