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Can you name any "great" technologies in place of each of these?

• foobarchu 10y ago
  That's in the eye of the beholder, and definitely depends on the situation. The good thing about the boring tools is that they have really wide applicability. For a small REST api, I really like Dropwizard on top of something with a solid raw driver, like Redis or Cassandra. If you want to go relational, I like the MyBatis model of persistence over the Hibernate style ORM, it gives you so much more flexibility and power over modeling, while still giving you an easy out for swapping out datasources. I don't really know of a good drop-in replacement for what Spring does, unfortunately, because Spring is really a conglomeration of so much different stuff. My big issue with it isn't so much what it does, as the fact that it encourages really bad mindsets in developers who start their career with it. I can't count the number of times I've asked someone to describe what annotations are, and the only answer they can give is about Spring (the worst part is when they attribute things from Jersey or JPA to Spring), or how they reduce the need for XML configuration (in Spring, yeah, that is true).