> The 'new Spring' is Spring Boot, which was a response to this then-obscure framework called Dropwizard
This is correct, but what pisses me off is that the Spring folks clearly copied Dropwizard, then failed to even mention Dropwizard in their various docs, blogs, talks, etc, which you're thinking is fine. But they DO mention other (less useful) projects as supposed alternatives for Spring Boot, essentially, pretending as if Dropwizard doens't even exist when clearly it's the reason that Spring Boot exists! Shameful.
Spring hails Boot as the new way of doing things, but it's still by no means a clean break for the rest of the Spring ecosystem where programming by XML (or annotations) is still king and the APIs are still a horrible, overcomplicated mess. There's no undoing that.
This is correct, but what pisses me off is that the Spring folks clearly copied Dropwizard, then failed to even mention Dropwizard in their various docs, blogs, talks, etc, which you're thinking is fine. But they DO mention other (less useful) projects as supposed alternatives for Spring Boot, essentially, pretending as if Dropwizard doens't even exist when clearly it's the reason that Spring Boot exists! Shameful.
Spring hails Boot as the new way of doing things, but it's still by no means a clean break for the rest of the Spring ecosystem where programming by XML (or annotations) is still king and the APIs are still a horrible, overcomplicated mess. There's no undoing that.