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user321068
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Reputation:

Alternative to Spring in smaller applications

I like to work with Spring features like @Component, @Autowired or ApplicationContext even in smaller applications (like batch applications).

I've read that Java EE 6 is now a viable alternative to Spring in enterprise applications. Is that also true for smaller ones? What would be the corresponding alternatives to the features I've mentioned above?

Upvotes: 5

Views: 3346

Answers (4)

George Meyer
George Meyer

Reputation: 11

DataKernel might be a great option in your case. From the site:

DataKernel is a full-featured alternative web and big data Java framework.

A set of predefined launchers and classes for typical use cases allows you to develop apps extremely fast. Create an async HTTP server in less than 15 lines of code with no additional configuration files.

They also have their own Dependency Injection with quite impressive benchmarks:

DataKernel DI is lightning-fast: 5.5 times faster than Guice and up to 100s times faster than Spring.

Note that DataKernel has quite a different approach comparing to Spring framework, it is more like Node.js-inspired

Upvotes: 0

Arjan Tijms
Arjan Tijms

Reputation: 38163

The Java EE 6 Web Profile is suitable for very small applications. TomEE is a good example, it's only some 25MB and runs in 64MB of memory.

Being mostly POJO and annotation based with a good dose of convention over configuration, the programming model is also very light and easy to understand now.

Upvotes: 2

Shahzeb
Shahzeb

Reputation: 4785

Java EE 6 is not going to be any lighter that's for sure. In the Java EE space look at jBoss Weld. But really good alternate and in lighter weight is google Guice.

Upvotes: 6

Japan Trivedi
Japan Trivedi

Reputation: 4483

Play Framework is also a good recommendation for a smaller application. Its main feature is Hot Deployment. And its view technology is like Grails. Its pretty good.

Hope this helps you. Cheers.

Upvotes: 1

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