Framework · 2003–now · Web Boom

Spring

Java's practical operating system for apps. DI and Boot made enterprise Java shippable again.

Spring stuck by absorbing every J2EE mistake into optional modules and sane defaults. Boot turned deployable JARs into a one-liner onboarding path. It wins because enterprise Java hiring still means Spring on the resume.

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Case studies

Deutsche Bank absorbs Postbank into integration purgatory — Multi-year, multi-billion IT integration; branch and core systems lagged for a decade
The ESB hub that became the outage — Hours of nationwide payment and branch downtime; remediation and audit costs in the tens of millions

Patterns

Config-as-architecture

Context

The browser ate the desktop

The web became the default delivery surface. LAMP and Rails made shipping cheap; Ajax made pages feel like apps; SOAP/SOA tried to enterprise-ify the wire. REST won by being debuggable with curl. This decade invented the modern product cadence — and the habit of treating every new framework as destiny.