Yes, Spring Boot is pretty cool. Not a bit of xml in sight, unless you want it, of course. And you have the choice of deploying with an embedded Tomcat or as a

Yes, Spring Boot is pretty cool. Not a bit of xml in sight, unless you want it, of course. And you have the choice of deploying with an embedded Tomcat or as a more traditional war. I think a lot of "big Java" haters haven't looked at Spring or JEE (which has seen similar massive improvements) in the last several years.