I am the founder of Crudzilla Software (check my profile for link). Our product is a browser based web development tool that comes with its own middleware/fram

I am the founder of Crudzilla Software (check my profile for link). Our product is a browser based web development tool that comes with its own middleware/framework with a UI built just for it. I think this approach while not as generic is superior because you get the benefit of real tooling not just a generic framework that you need to manually glue together. Spring like many frameworks are designed to be generic and pluggable into other tools/IDEs, unfortunately once they become complex their benefit is greatly reduced for most projects. Support us so we can continue to improve on the product, visual UI building and integration is on the horizon :)