SPRING GOT A LOT EASIER ▸ “starter-poms” ▸ Autoconfiguration for all Spring components an many 3rd party libraries ▸ Project skeleton generated with web UI or command line tool
SPRING APPLICATION IS EXECUTABLE ▸ java -jar myapp.jar ▸ Embedded containers: Tomcat, Jetty, Undertow ▸ Optionally can be packaged as WAR and run anywhere
SPRING IS CLOUD FRIENDLY ▸ Externalized configuration ▸ Metrics ▸ Health checks ▸ Spring Cloud based on Spring Boot - plays nice with Netflix stack - de facto standard for building micro services