The Java EE platform is huge, and I must confess I’m not aware of every one of its API. This is also true of the Spring framework, even though I think I know more of Spring than of Java EE. Lately, I was working on the version 10 of the Vaadin framework also known as Vaadin Flow. This version introduces routes. When a path is requested, the Vaadin Servlet displays the component. Routes are created by annotating specific components with the @Route annotation.

Every now and then, there’s an angry post or comment bitching about how the Spring framework is full of XML, how terrible and verbose it is, and how the author would never use it because of that. Of course, that is completely crap. First, when Spring was created, XML was pretty hot. J2EE deployment descriptors (yes, that was the name at the time) was XML-based. Anyway, it’s 2017 folks, and there are multiple ways to skin a cat.