I would definitely use Spring Boot now. It definitely has parity in my view. The simplicity is there too, so for example if you still like DW metrics you can pu

I would definitely use Spring Boot now. It definitely has parity in my view. The simplicity is there too, so for example if you still like DW metrics you can pull those in easily. You also get the other Spring things for free, like Spring Batch which I think is another good piece of software from Spring.