I don't really disagree with you. I'm sure it's possible to be really productive in it. It has a steep learning curve of course. Having said that, I stand by

I don't really disagree with you. I'm sure it's possible to be really productive in it. It has a steep learning curve of course. Having said that, I stand by my performance criticism. I have done some detailed profiling on spring and non spring versions of code (I didn't write the spring parts, a spring expert did). It really does add a lot of overhead to start up and transactions vs. straightforward POJOs and JDBC code.