Spring nowadays supports the JDK-native annotations where the exist, and they have a lot of Spring-agnostic libraries under their umbrella. But I'm inclined to

Spring nowadays supports the JDK-native annotations where the exist, and they have a lot of Spring-agnostic libraries under their umbrella. But I'm inclined to agree on the case of Spring Boot... It's meant to be a "convention over configuration" kind of thing, so I guess by nature it ties you in pretty hard.