What's Your Go-To Java Framework

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Explore different Java frameworks such as Java 21, Quarkus, Spring Boot, Maven, JUnit 5, and Testcontainers.

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Kotlin

…that’s a language.

Think Spring Boot or Play or Grails, etc.

Edit> Nevermind, the title here didn’t properly reflect the title of the article. Kotlin is very valid as part of the stack of development in Java. My apologies for my pedantry :)

I'm not a huge fan of Kotlin. Overall it's fine, but in my opinion it tries to do too many cool things. It feels like a playground for language authors.

My view on it as an Android dev: it's a powerful language that has stripped back all the boilerplate and crustiness of Java into concise and expressive functional programming.

I dislike how much I write to say very little in Java.

It does mean that there is a lot more of a learning curve to Kotlin.

Every language is a playground for language authors, that's how they develop.

l wouldn't call half of these java frameworks

In fairness, the actual title of the article is "What's Your Go-To Java Stack [emphasis mine]".

Currently Java 11 + Spring Boot + Hibernate/JPA. The hope is to get rid of the legacy Play Framework crap so we can move to the latest Java LTS and get fully up to date with Spring Boot.

a handmade mug. it frames the java nicely