Spring's future

[Adam Koblentz]

After seeing some of the presentations at TSSJS, I'm left wondering what the value of the spring framework will be in the future since a lot of its functionality is being included in JSE and JEE.

[Mark Spritzler]

Adam Koblentz wrote:After seeing some of the presentations at TSSJS, I'm left wondering what the value of the spring framework will be in the future since a lot of its functionality is being included in JSE and JEE.

1) Spring is much more mature.
2) SpringSource has a lot more than just the Core Spring module that JSE and JEE don't cover.
3) SpringSource is providing seamless integration with the Cloud
4) SpringSource owns GemFire a high available Caching that runs also in the Cloud.
5) Support for Spring in all the major Web Frameworks, either provided by Spring or by the Framework.

I know there are lots more too.

Mark

[Jeanne Boyarsky]

At TSSJS, Oracle basically came out and said they plan to stay behind the curve. It sounds like the innovation will be in the Spring space and then fall to JEE.

[Craig Walls]

I don't think I could have said it any better than what Mark said.

[Adam Koblentz]

Thanks, I appreciate the responses.

I know there are a lot of things Spring does well, however, I wonder what the percentage of Spring users are that only use the DI portion of the framework? Or just use spring-mvc because JEE was previously "unusable".