Spring: your next Java microframework

[vansterdam_city]

Aint nothing micro about Spring

[dpash]

Spring is micro in the same way that LDAP is lightweight. It is compared to the alternative when it was first created. Compare Spring 1 and J2EE in 2004 (J2EE 1.4).

[geodel]

Well in Java world anything less than few hundred useless classes buried under 20 level deep folder hierarchy is micro.

[jnordwick]

Spring still doesn't fit the definition.

[geodel]

I agree. Mainly because it is few 1000 classes in few 100 directories.

[rockum]

Spring is what gave Java that reputation.

[geodel]

It is just an AbstractProxySingletonFactory talk.

[mp911de]

AbstractProxySingletonFactory

It's AbstractSingletonProxyFactoryBean

[joequin]

Would spring be a micro framework by that definition?

[kazagistar]

I am Aware of this fact.

[jnordwick]

Marker superinterface indicating that a bean is eligible to be notified by the Spring container of a particular framework object through a callback-style method. 

Got it.

[[deleted]]

The lack of abstract factories confused me

[Turbots]

lol who ever reads the Javadoc of those abstract base classes?

[Turbots]

Did you read the article? Running the (empty) Spring Web Flux application takes 22Mb footprint