The title and some of the subheadings in the German article "JavaEE failed to enter the market: why Spring 4 is planning without JavaEE7" don’t necessarily recap Jürgen’s blog post.
"Why Spring 5 is planning without JavaEE 7" — the opposite of that is true. The framework already supports a lot of specifications of the JavaEE 7 release: Servlet 3.1, JTA 1.2 (@Transactional
), JPA 2.1, WebSocket 1.0 etc. are already supported by Spring 4. The JCache support in Spring is so old (introduced in 4.0), many Java developers don’t even realize that the spec hasn’t been included in any official JavaEE release yet.
It’s a matter of fact that for a lot of projects that run on application servers like IBM WebSphere and Oracle Weblogic using Spring as a platform is the only way to use these n