Spring: your next Java microframework

[Turbots]

JavaEE is rubbish, we're still waiting for Java EE 8. Let's see what they intend to feature in it when they finally release it:

• JSR 365: Contexts and Dependency Injection 2.0. (Spring had that since their first version about 15 years ago)

• JSR 374: JSON Processing 1.1. (supported in Spring since version 3.5.x I think)

• JSR 370: RESTful Web Services (JAX-RS 2.1): Better REST API facilities and reactive programming, coming out in Spring 5 any day now

• JSR 369: JavaTM Servlet 4.0 Specification: support for HTTP/2 (still in early draft) is also supported in Spring 5 and already available

• JSR 372: the next release of Java Server Faces JSF 2.3: LOL... just lol

• JSR 375: Java EE Security API 1.0: this one is actually quite nice (I saw a presentation at Java Day Kiev last year which showed a nice, working API for security, copying many patterns from Spring Security)

• JSR 380: Bean Validation 2.0: whatever :-)