I used to like spring in favor of JEE Application servers. But of late, spring is getting too bloated, too complicated and buggy. OTOH, newer java frameworks ar

I used to like spring in favor of JEE Application servers. But of late, spring is getting too bloated, too complicated and buggy. OTOH, newer java frameworks are simpler and easier to work with. For example, spark application framework or retrofit for rest APIs. At this point spring is very similar to JEE.