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What's New in Spring Framework 6.1
The point isn't that one should reinvent the way that Tomcat is started, but that Spring Boot (by default) is using action at a distance and runtime reflection which have serious downsides if you want to understand what's actually going on because you're a) new to the technology, or b) have to debug some weird edge case.
The alternative is using explicit, reflection-less code - which you can do even with Spring, although it's experimental: https://github.com/spring-projects-experimental/spring-fu
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What are some of the biggest problems you personally face in Java?
Bean Definition -> Still needed although experimental projects like Spring Fu might remove their need in the future. Technically, there is nothing to stop you from registering beans functionally right now but the verbosity is likely to make that approach less optimal.
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I hate Spring (the Java framework)
Quarkus just moves the problem IMHO. I find it similarly convoluted to use as normal Spring. I had to deal with that a few months ago on a project. Honestly, it actually feels a lot like spring used to be; and not in a good way. Lots of annotation magic all over the place.
I use Spring Boot by default. But I aggressively limit the use of annotation magic. I've never liked the byte code hacks people do to make annotations inject magical behavior. Hard to debug and painful when it does not work as expected.
I don't think either of these frameworks have an edge over each other. You end up using a lot of the same underlying library ecosystem.
I do like the annotation less direction that Spring has been taking since they started adding Kotlin support 4-5 years ago. If you want to, you can get rid of most annotations for things like dependency injection, defining controllers, transactions etc.
Especially with Kotlin, this makes a lot of sense. With Java, dealing with builders is just a lot more painful without kotlin's DSL support. You basically end up with a lot of verbosity, method chaining, etc. But it's possible if you want to. It's a big reason, I prefer using Kotlin with Spring Boot. Makes the whole thing feel like a modern framework. The hard part with Spring Boot is being able to tell apart all the legacy and backwards compatible stuff from the actual current and proper way of doing things.
There's a project that they've been pushing to get rid of all annotations: https://github.com/spring-projects-experimental/spring-fu/tr.... I suspect a lot of that stuff might be part of spring boot 3.x later this year. And quite a bit of it is actually already part of the current version of Spring.
This makes spring boot very similar to what you'd do with ktor. All you do is call kotlin functions. No annotations. No reflection. No magic. Very little verbosity. It's all declarative. And a nice side effect is also that it makes things like spring-native easier, which they started supporting recently.
It's very similar to using ktor with koin (for dependency injection). That combination is worth a try if you are looking for something lightweight and easy to use. Spring Boot has more features and complexity but it can be as simple to use as that if you know what you are doing.
Mostly, keeping things simple is a good thing with Spring. Also, I don't tend to do everything the spring way. Spring integration is a bit of a double edged sword for example. It offers a subset of the features of the libraries that it integrates. If you want the full feature set, you end up working around that. IMHO, you should do that by default. I've removed spring integration from several projects.
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Scala at Scale at Databricks
> And that is a problem how? Stick to one style.
Switching an API from "a result or nothing" to "a result or an error message" happens all the time, and switching in the other direction is only slightly less frequent. And of course most programs have some APIs where one is appropriate and some where the other is. So consistency is valuable.
> https://github.com/spring-projects-experimental/spring-fu/tr...
Still reflection-based.
> There's nothing magical about it.
It's magical to anyone thinking in the language - it breaks the rules of the language, so you can't reason about what it does.
> Kotlin is an unmaintainable soup of features
Are you sure you're not confusing Kotlin with Scala?
> For example, Kotlin has null safety and it lets you write code using errors-as-values style "either" types - but it has two completely separate syntaxes for these things, and so it's impossible to interoperate or reuse code between those two approaches
And that is a problem how? Stick to one style.
> In practice Kotlin codebases still use magical incomprehensible reflection (Spring Boot)
https://github.com/spring-projects-experimental/spring-fu/tr...
> and magical compile-time manipulation (Kapt)
There's nothing magical about it.
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A new way to construct objects in Java
SpringFu (from Spring team): https://github.com/spring-projects-experimental/spring-fu/tree/main/jafu
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Annotation-free Spring
It's mentioned in the article, even though the examples are written in Kotlin spring-fu supports a java-based dsl.
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Kotlin Team AMA #3: Ask Us Anything
Longer term : getting rid of kotlin-reflect in Spring Framework by performing Kotlin reflection ahead-of-time and continuing to mature https://github.com/spring-projects-experimental/spring-fu for a more DSL-ish way of configuring Spring Boot are my favorite topics.
There is already a very close collaboration between Kotlin and Spring teams. I think leveraging more multiplatform capabilities and more DSL à la KoFu from https://github.com/spring-projects-experimental/spring-fu could increase Koltin usage on server side long term.
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The Modern Java Platform
There's a next stage after annotations. The current thinking is to replace annotations with function calls. It makes more sense if you use Kotlin because Java is a bit verbose when you do this and in Kotlin you get to create nice DSLs. This cuts down on use of reflection and AOP magic that spring relies on and also enables native compilation. It also makes it easier to debug and it makes it much easier to understand what is going on at the price of surprisingly little verbosity. Kofu and Jafu are basically still experimental but work quite nicely https://github.com/spring-projects-experimental/spring-fu/tr...
Another trend is native compilation. Spring native just went into beta (uses the Graal compiler). That still relies on reflection but they re-engineered the internals to be more native friendly.
Spring Boot basically added the notion of autoconfiguring libraries that simply by being on the classpath self configure in a sane way. It's one of those things that makes the experience a bit more ruby on rails like. Stuff just works with minimal coding and you customise it as needed (or not, which is perfectly valid).
Compared to XML configuration, Spring has come a long way. Separating code and configuration is still a good idea with Spring but indeed not strictly enforced. @Configuration classes can take the place of XML and if you use the bean dsl, that's basically the equivalent of using XML. Only it's type checked at compile time and a bit more readable.
Play
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Reflex – Web apps in pure Python
My major complain here is that, as far as being a web framework there is precious little information here about the framework. How does this framework scale with multiple requests? What concurrency strategy is it using (threads, processes, actors, etc?). Is this opinionated (it doesn't seem so but it also doesn't say it isn't either). How does this work with popular libraries x,y,z. The full docs have a little bit more information, but not a ton. But mostly there are some cute toy examples and "built in python" and thats about it.
Lets compare this with for example play https://www.playframework.com/ I know from this that it built on Akka, its stateless, aims for predictable resource consumption, has non-blocking io, etc. There is a ton of really important information on what does this web framework actually do that is really important when you are making a choice of a framework.
I have no idea how good this framework is, but besides a few toy examples, I can't see anything that makes me thing "wow this is great I need to use this".
- Scala opensource projects
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What is scala's modern Web API framework?
Scala 3 migration isn't as simple as migrating other apps, you can track the work at https://github.com/playframework/playframework/issues/11260
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what library/framework should I use for backend development?
However do note, Play should be perfectly usable as well, and it's still maintained by the community: https://github.com/playframework/playframework/issues/11649
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Why I selected Elixir and Phoenix as my main stack
In university I learned a bit of Java, so maybe I could use it professionally I guess?. There were many options to choose from. DropWizard, Spark, Play Framework. But the more documented one in the internet I found was Springboot, besides there were some courses in spanish and some friends that knew something about Springboot, so I give it a chance.
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Make your zip packages for lambdas (and many more use cases) idempotent with a zip-drop-in replacement
See https://github.com/playframework/playframework/issues/10572 and https://github.com/sbt/sbt/issues/6235 for more details and context.
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Pleasant to use Scala libraries
The most popular nowadays are - I guess - akka-http and http4s. You can also use Play if you don't want to start from scratch but prefer a framework-based approach.
- Why We’re Sticking with Ruby on Rails at GitLab
- O que estou fazendo?? Um projetinho de estudo.
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Play Framework: first release based at Open Collective
release notes: https://github.com/playframework/playframework/releases/2.8.13
What are some alternatives?
Spring Boot - Spring Boot
Scalatra - Tiny Scala high-performance, async web framework, inspired by Sinatra
Quarkus - Quarkus: Supersonic Subatomic Java.
Finatra - Fast, testable, Scala services built on TwitterServer and Finagle
koin - Koin - a pragmatic lightweight dependency injection framework for Kotlin & Kotlin Multiplatform
Lift - Lift Framework
Http4s - A minimal, idiomatic Scala interface for HTTP
Spring - Spring Framework
Skinny Framework - :monorail: "Scala on Rails" - A full-stack web app framework for rapid development in Scala
Apache Wicket - Apache Wicket - Component-based Java web framework
compose-multiplatform - Compose Multiplatform, a modern UI framework for Kotlin that makes building performant and beautiful user interfaces easy and enjoyable.
Colossus - I/O and Microservice library for Scala