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> Spring has gotten so bloated.
I'd call Spring feature-rich than bloated. You can always shed weight that you don't want to carry.
> Plus there's multiple ways of doing the same thing. e.g. JPA, spring-data.
That's because there are different ways to solve a problem. Someone may want an ORM-based approach to connect to the database; they can choose spring-data-jpa. Someone may want to use JDBC with a light abstraction on top of it; they can choose spring-data-jdbc. It's all about choices and right tradeoffs and Spring offers plenty of them.
> they don't provide easy upgrade paths between majors versions
That's not my experience. I've been happily upgrading 2.x.x versions and plan to upgrade to 3.2.x when it is ready. But depending on the codebase, I admit it can be painful. Projects like OpenRewrite[1] might help here.
> and they stop updating vulnerabilities on older major versions.
This is not news. They want you to pay for extended support if you need it.
> No docs on migration.
They do maintain migration docs on GitHub wiki which are a lot more detailed than their blog posts on migration. Here's the latest one to upgrade from Spring Boot 2 to 3: https://github.com/spring-projects/spring-boot/wiki/Spring-B...
[1]: https://github.com/openrewrite/rewrite
> Spring has gotten so bloated.
I'd call Spring feature-rich than bloated. You can always shed weight that you don't want to carry.
> Plus there's multiple ways of doing the same thing. e.g. JPA, spring-data.
That's because there are different ways to solve a problem. Someone may want an ORM-based approach to connect to the database; they can choose spring-data-jpa. Someone may want to use JDBC with a light abstraction on top of it; they can choose spring-data-jdbc. It's all about choices and right tradeoffs and Spring offers plenty of them.
> they don't provide easy upgrade paths between majors versions
That's not my experience. I've been happily upgrading 2.x.x versions and plan to upgrade to 3.2.x when it is ready. But depending on the codebase, I admit it can be painful. Projects like OpenRewrite[1] might help here.
> and they stop updating vulnerabilities on older major versions.
This is not news. They want you to pay for extended support if you need it.
> No docs on migration.
They do maintain migration docs on GitHub wiki which are a lot more detailed than their blog posts on migration. Here's the latest one to upgrade from Spring Boot 2 to 3: https://github.com/spring-projects/spring-boot/wiki/Spring-B...
[1]: https://github.com/openrewrite/rewrite
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