#61: Spring framework: 2 decades of building Java applications

Spring framework is probably the most popular and most successful application framework for Java. Writing a server or a web application before Spring was cumbersome. And it required an insane amount of boilerplate. Even in already bloated Java language. This framework was created sort of as a by-product for a book by Rod Johnson, back in 2003. He wanted to build an alternative to heavyweight Enterprise Java Beans standard. What was just an idea sparked to be one of the largest ecosystems for Java. Read more: https://nurkiewicz.com/61 Get the new episode straight to your mailbox: https://nurkiewicz.com/newsletter